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A spreader patch is a fabric reinforcement at a point on a sail where it is likely to rub with the spreader on a mast. Spreader patches may be placed
Spreader_patch
Component of the rigging of a boat
A spreader is a spar on a sailing boat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast. The spreader or spreaders serve much the same
Spreader_(sailboat)
Features that define a (ship) sail's shape and function
that does not lie flat. Where a sail may rub against a spreader on the mast, a spreader patch may be placed on a jib, when it overlaps with the mast,
Sail_components
System for generating thrust for watercraft
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Wind-assisted_propulsion
American physician, activist (born 1945)
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute
Patch_Adams
Triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast
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Jib
Term for a makeshift repair
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Jury_rigging
Rigging pole
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Spar_(sailing)
Type of sailing rig
sail spread to the Nile River in Egypt, where the lateen-rigged felucca was developed. The emergence of new evidence for the development and spread of the
Lateen
Pole used in rigging of a sailing vessel
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Mast_(sailing)
Type of sail
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Spanker_(sail)
Sail boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig
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Sloop
Fastener consisting of a U-shaped bracket through which a pin is placed
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Clevis_fastener
Metal assembly which functions as a removable connecting link
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Shackle
Type of sailing vessel
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Barque
Small vertical spar on the bow of a ship
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Jackstaff
Rigging that supports masts
strand by strand as a cable would), often where the rod bends around a spreader. Bending can induce unseen stress fractures. Most fore-and-aft rigged vessels
Standing_rigging
Sailing rig configuration
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Gaff_rig
Ropes, cables and chains which support masts of sailing ships
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Rigging
Sailing ship component
marline is wound around a cable, becomes a large hairy cylinder. Spreader patch Stanchion patch Hervey Garrett Smith (October 1990). The Arts of the Sailor:
Baggywrinkle
Spar extending forward from a sailing vessel's prow
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Bowsprit
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Bobstay
Sail-carrying part of the rigging of a sailing ship
In order to set and stow the square sails, the crew must climb aloft and spread out along the yards. To do this, they stand in footropes suspended beneath
Yard_(sailing)
Sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts
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Full-rigged_ship
Rope tied to a boat
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Painter_(rope)
Part of ladder on square-rigged ships
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Ratlines
Deck-fitting on a ship or boat, and used to secure ropes
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Bitts
Rope used to hoist a sail
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Halyard
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Skysail
Nautical term
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Jackline
Element of ship's rigging
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Belaying_pin
Type of sail on a square rigged vessel
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Topgallant_sail
Type of ship sail
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Staysail
Rope-securing device
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Cleat_(nautical)
Configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat
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Bermuda_rig
Type of sailboat
the origin of the catboat type was in New York around 1840 and from there spread east and south as the virtues of the type — simplicity, ease of handling
Catboat
Sail rigged to the main mast of a sailing vessel
3 – spinnaker 4 – hull 5 – keel 6 – rudder 7 – skeg 8 – mast 9 – spreader 10 – shroud 11 – sheet 12 – boom 13 - mast 14 – spinnaker pole 15
Mainsail
Small line (rope) used to fasten the corner of a sail to a spar or yard
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Earing
Part of sailing ship
support to the mast. On most sailing boats, such structures are called spreaders, and the shrouds they hold continue down to the deck. On large sailing
Shroud_(sailing)
Hole through which to pass a rope
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Cringle
Type of sail
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Spritsail
Large wind-powered water vessel
century and was adopted by the Arab traders in the Indian Ocean. The compass spread to Europe by the late 12th or early 13th century. Use of the compass for
Sailing_ship
Type of large jib or staysail
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Genoa_(sail)
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Fife_rail
Element of sailing rigging
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Parrel_beads
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Royal_(sail)
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Fisherman's_staysail
Sail
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Moonraker_(sail)
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Gooseneck_(sailing)
Fabric or other surface supported by a mast to allow wind propulsion
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Sail
One of the lines on a sail ship
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Sheet_(sailing)
Type of square sail
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Course_(sail)
Control line found on sailboats
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Outhaul
Wind propulsion technology for large ships
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SolidSail
Extra sail on a sailing ship
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Studding_sail
Guide for rope, sheet or cable
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Fairlead
Type of sail
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Spritsail_(square-rigged)
Sail set above another sail
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Topsail
Variable-camber aerodynamic structure
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Wingsail
Part of ship's rigging
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Truck_(rigging)
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Peak_halyard
Part of sailboats
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Sail_batten
Part of a sailing rig
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Forestay
Spar in ship's rigging
typically half the length of the spritsail yard or, when spreaders were used, the same length as one spreader. On a catamaran such as the Hobie 16 and the Tornado
Dolphin_striker
In sailing, a spar along the bottom edge of a fore and aft rigged sail
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Boom_(sailing)
Sail designed for sailing off the wind
such systems include:[needs update] sail modification to include a center patch and cringle to attach a retriever line (also termed a "takedown line") to
Spinnaker
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Downhaul
Sailboat rigging component
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Spinnaker_pole
Sail that combines the features of a spinnaker and a reacher
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Screecher
Type of downhaul
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Cunningham_(sailing)
Type of sail developed before the 1980s
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Gennaker
Type of sail
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Lug_sail
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Topping_lift
Small sail for high winds
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Trysail
Unofficial term used to refer to monthly software updates by software companies
patches for their software products. It is widely referred to in this way by the industry. Microsoft formalized Patch Tuesday in October 2003. Patch Tuesday
Patch_Tuesday
Piece of standing rigging on a sailing vessel
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Backstay
Item used in rigging of sailing ships
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Deadeye
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Sprit_topmast
Single masted sailing rig without headsails
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Cat_rigged
Sailing term; single or multiple pulley
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Block_(sailing)
Double triangular mainsails furling on an unstayed rotating mast
glued clean wood, conical, without stays or shrouds. Boom, pole, gaff, spreaders and such are completely omitted. The mast is supported by two ball bearings
Ljungström_rig
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Watersail
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Boomkin
Sailboat rigging component
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Boom_vang
Boat rigging component
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Running_backstay
Triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges used by traditional Austronesians
in Island Southeast Asia by at least 2000 BCE.[failed verification] It spread with the Austronesian migration to Micronesia, Island Melanesia, Madagascar
Austronesian_sail_types
Sailing rig consisting mainly of sails
"square" sail with two spars that come together at the hull. Crab claw sails spread from Maritime Southeast Asia to Micronesia, Island Melanesia, Polynesia
Fore-and-aft_rig
Tool for judging wind direction on a sailboat
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Tell-tale_(sailing)
Fore and aft sailing rig with nearly vertical upper spar
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Gunter_rig
Rope to control the end of a spar on a sailboat
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Guy_(sailing)
Degree of curvature of a sail in a horizontal cross-section
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Draft_(sail)
Oblique quadrilateral sail from south east Asia
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Tanja_sail
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Bolt_rope
Type of sail
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Foresail
Wire used on sailboats
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Trapeze_(sailing)
Upper section of mast on sailing ship
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Topmast
Lines that control sails
taut and thus preventing it from curling back on itself. To extend its spread it was often attached to a bridle and thence to three or four bowline cringles
Running_rigging
Variant of the Bermuda sailboat rig
It employs swept spreaders that are usually angled aft, together with "stays" running diagonally downward from the tip of the spreaders to the attachment
B&R_rig
Standing rigging supporting a mast
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Stays_(nautical)
Sliding part of a sailing vessel
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Traveller_(nautical_fitting)
SPREADER PATCH
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Boy/Male
Muslim
Spreader of good news
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil, Telugu
Voice of God Indra
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Spreader of good news
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Publisher Diffuser; Spreader
Girl/Female
Muslim
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Publisher; Spreader
Girl/Female
Muslim
Speaker
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who thatched cottages with reeds, from an agent derivative of Middle English rēd(en) ‘to cover with reeds’.Americanized spelling of German Rieder.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a farm laborer, from Middle English sedere ‘sower’ (agent derivative of sed ‘seed’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Streeter.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Spreader of Good News
Boy/Male
Arabic
Expander; Spreader; One who Enlarges
Girl/Female
Muslim
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
Girl/Female
Muslim
Publisher, Spreader
Girl/Female
Indian
Speaker
Girl/Female
Indian
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Diffuser; Spreader; Publisher
Girl/Female
Indian
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
Girl/Female
Indian
Helper, Publisher, Diffuser, Spreader, Protector
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Muruga
Girl/Female
Tamil
Riyanshika | ரீயாநà¯à®·à¯€à®•à®¾
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Symbol; Mark; Flag
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Jamaican
Valley; To Make Famous
Boy/Male
Indian, Marathi
Dreamlike
Girl/Female
Arabic, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi
Intelligent
Girl/Female
English French
Medieval male name adopted as a feminine name.
Boy/Male
Tamil
A Sanskrit grammarian, The great scholar grammarian
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
Hindi
Roamer.
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n.
One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.
v. t.
To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
n.
One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
n.
A proof reader.
a.
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
n.
One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
v. i.
To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
v. t.
To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
n.
One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.
n.
An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
n.
One who spreads abroad.
v. t.
To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
v. i.
To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
v. t.
To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
v. t.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
n.
A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
imp. & p. p.
of Spread
n.
One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
n.
A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.