"Shove one under the spanker boom," the Old Man sung out, as the boy finished lashing up the other two.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
Let the body be the well-fashioned hulk, and the mind the white sails, all hoisted, everything, from flying jib to spanker, bearing on toward the harbor of glorious achievement.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
A snow was similar to a brig, except that she carried upon a small spar, just abaft the mainmast, a kind of trysail, then called the spanker.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery