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  • noun Plural form of spinnaker.

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Examples

  • On Artemis Ocean Racing, Ms. Caffari instructs her crew to hoist the spinnaker, but a run of bad luck follows and two spinnakers are ripped, allowing their competitors to race past as they sail to the finish line.

    Sailing in the Eye of the Wind William Lyons 2011

  • In wind propulsion, we naturally indulge our greed and lust for more, building might y spinnakers and parachutes with potential to trap it all.

    Fury Power | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • I'm just realizing now that Marco Rubio's ears are the size of competition class spinnakers!

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • Superficially it resembles a spinnaker, but spinnakers are not able to fly on long lines so that they can catch the stronger steadier winds hundreds of feet up or be flown in a huge arc to increase the power of the pull.

    POWER YOUR BOAT WITH KITES: Wind Power by KiteShip | Inhabitat 2007

  • Still pretty windy, but with just main and jib (no spinnakers allowed in twilight racing) it wasn't hard work.

    Journal for 14 December 2000 Alex Allan 2009

  • And yet … in September, a fat stack of very pretty publications will launch, with heavy paper stock, big perfectly bound spines, and shiny pictures of spinnakers and gourmet chocolate.

    Church Cuddles Up to State: Media's Glossy New Reality 2008

  • And yet … in September, a fat stack of very pretty publications will launch, with heavy paper stock, big perfectly bound spines, and shiny pictures of spinnakers and gourmet chocolate.

    Church Cuddles Up to State: Media's Glossy New Reality 2008

  • And yet … in September, a fat stack of very pretty publications will launch, with heavy paper stock, big perfectly bound spines, and shiny pictures of spinnakers and gourmet chocolate.

    Church Cuddles Up to State: Media's Glossy New Reality 2008

  • How on Tuesday summer nights the sailboats would race on the lake, the water packed tight with speeding triangles of white and spinnakers of starburst color.

    The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

  • MARK THOMPSON, RACE DOCTOR: My understanding is that they have him on a weather bunk surrounded quite comfortably with, you know, spare spinnakers to keep him as stable as possible.

    CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001 2001

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