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spanker

(n): a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

There was no sail now on the ship, but the spanker and the close-reefed main topsail, which still held good. But this was too much after sail, and order was given to furl the spanker.

- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25

I love "furl the spanker".

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