Gooseneck of Spanker-Boom Small 320×240 Medium 640×480 Large 1024×768 Download Tiff Original 2400×1800 | (486.2 KB) Description "Gooseneck of a Spanker-boom. Nautical: (a) A sort of iron hook fitted to the inner end of a yard or boom, for temporary attachment to a clamp of iron or an eye-bolt." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords boom, clamp, eye-bolt, gooseneck, iron hook, nautical, ship, spanker-boom Galleries Miscellaneous Ship Illustrations Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
