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Spinnaker vs Reacher - What's the difference?

spinnaker | reacher |

As nouns the difference between spinnaker and reacher

is that spinnaker is a supplemental sail to the main sail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind while reacher is a person who reaches.

spinnaker

English

Noun

(wikipedia spinnaker) (en noun)
  • (nautical) A supplemental sail to the main sail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.

    • reacher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • A device used to reach something.
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) An exaggeration.
    • (Fuller)
    (Webster 1913)