![]() ![]() First, let’s make sure we understand the two original sail types: the spinnaker and the genoa. The gennaker is an all-purpose downwind sail, while spinnakers are built for specific downwind apparent wind angles.īecause designs are changing so quickly, the term gennaker can seem complicated. What exactly is a gennaker? In short, a gennaker has a genoa’s form (asymmetric, head and tack pinned, sheets tied to the clew) with the wide girth of a spinnaker. Unlike the spork, gennakers are an entirely new sail type that demonstrate the sailing industry’s leading edge. Like the Spork (a combination of spoon and fork), the name gennaker came from combining two very different sail types into one: a genoa and a spinnaker. The board game (originally Cluedo) was launched in 1949 in Britain.GENNAKER AND SPINNAKER: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? Understanding these two sail types can help you figure out which will be best for your boat. Thus hardy Theseus, with intrepid Feet, Travers'd the dang'rous Labyrinth of Crete But still the wandring Passes forc'd his Stay, Till Ariadne's Clue unwinds the Way As something which a bewildered person does not have, by 1948. The purely figurative sense of "that which points the way," without regard to labyrinths, is from 1620s. The sense shift is originally in reference to the clew of thread given by Ariadne to Theseus to use as a guide out of the Labyrinth in Greek mythology. ![]() The spelling clue is first attested mid-15c. The word, which is native Germanic, in Middle English was clewe, also cleue some words borrowed from Old French in - ue, - eu also were spelled -ew in Middle English, such as blew, imbew, but these later were reformed to -ue, and this process was extended to native words ( hue, true, clue) which had ended in a vowel and -w. "anything that guides or directs in an intricate case," 1590s, a special use of a revised spelling of clew "a ball of thread or yarn" (q.v.). Feet of clay "fundamental weakness" is from Daniel ii.33. Clay-pigeon "saucer of baked clay used as a flying target in trap-shooting," in place of live birds, is from 1881. As an adjective, "formed of clay," 1520s. In Scripture, the stuff from which the body of the first man was formed hence "human body" (especially when dead). Some sources see these as being from a common PIE root meaning "slime glue" also forming words for "clay" and verbs for "stick together." Compared words include Latin gluten "glue, beeswax " Greek gloios "sticky matter " Lithuanian glitus "sticky," glitas "mucus " Old Church Slavonic glina "clay," glenu "slime, mucus " Old Irish glenim "I cleave, adhere " Old English cliða "plaster." But Beekes writes that "Not all comparisons are convincing," and notes that most words cited are from Balto-Slavic or Germanic, "which suggests European substrate origin." Old English clæg "stiff, sticky earth clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaijaz (source also of Old High German kliwa "bran," German Kleie, Old Frisian klai, Old Saxon klei, Middle Dutch clei, Danish klæg "clay " also Old English clæman, Old Norse kleima, Old High German kleiman "to cover with clay"). ![]()
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