- One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. - A short jacket worn by men and by women. - A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast,
hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no
boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its
inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
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