dolphin striker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A near-vertical spar between the bowsprit and martingale
Example Sentences
- "meanwhile some of the sailors, with an imitative flying fish, get to that part of the vessel just under the bowsprit, called “the dolphin striker,” and with a bottle midway to their bait, they suddenly jerk it out of the water, to imitate the flying fish."
- "I ordered the Captain of the forecastle, to run out on the bowsprit with the end of a two inch at once, and throw a running bowline knot over his shoulders, and by-and-by, when he broke adrift from the dolphin striker, we hauled him in by the head; and the same night or next morning, I had a good beefsteak cut off him near his tail, and a capital one it was, too, you would hardly have known it from the regular beef."
- "The dolphin striker is slung near the cap; and the sprit-sail gaffs near the rigging by "jaw ropes,” and supported at their ends by lifts from the bowsprit cap."
- "An iron band with studs for the martingale and back ropes to be fitted to is frequently used on the dolphin striker."