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dolphin striker

a small spar under the bowsprit of a sailing vessel, used, together with the martingales, to brace the jib boom or flying jib boom

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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