different between spinnaker vs reacher

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp?n?k?/
• (US) enPR: sp?n??k?r, IPA^(key): /?sp?n?k?/

Noun

spinnaker (plural spinnakers)

1. (nautical) A supplemental sail to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.

Translations

Further reading

• spinnaker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

spinnaker m (plural spinnaker)

1. (nautical) spinnaker

Synonyms

spi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English spinnaker

Noun

spinnaker m (definite singular spinnakeren, indefinite plural spinnakere, definite plural spinnakerne)

1. (nautical) a spinnaker

References

• “spinnaker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English spinnaker

Noun

spinnaker m (definite singular spinnakeren, indefinite plural spinnakerar, definite plural spinnakerane)

1. (nautical, sailing) a spinnaker

References

• “spinnaker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

reach +? -er

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

1. A person who reaches.
   • 1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance (page 17)

     In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.

2. A device used to reach something.
3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
   • 2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay

     Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.

4. (obsolete) An exaggeration.

   • I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright"