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Where does “spinnaker” come from?

spinnaker (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from English spinnaker — A supplemental sail to the mainsail, especially a...

spinnaker (Norwegian Nynorsk): a spinnaker

Definitions

  1. a spinnaker

Ancestry of “spinnaker”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishspinnakerA supplemental sail to the mainsail, especially a...
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