ˈspanker-boom Naut.
[spanker1 3.]
The boom on which the spanker is set.
| 1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 261/2 Spanker-boom, gaff, and trysail-mast. 1834 Marryat P. Simple (1863) 244 Perch yourself upon the spanker-boom, and let me know when you've rode to London. 1854 C. L. Balfour Working Women 155 The next minute the spanker boom, an immense piece of timber, snapped like a reed. |
| attrib. 1849 Cupples Green Hand vii. (1856) 70 Men..hauling on the spanker-boom guys. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 231, I crawled right aft to the taffrail, and quietly put the end of the spanker boom sheet over. |