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dolphin-striker

dolphin-striker is the alternative form of dolphin striker.

Meaning of dolphin striker

Noun

dolphin striker (plural dolphin strikers)

  1. A near-vertical spar between the bowsprit and martingale
    • meanwhile some of the sailors, with an imitative flying fish, get to that part of the vessel just under the bowsprit, called “the dolphin striker,” and with a bottle midway to their bait, they suddenly jerk it out of the water, to imitate the flying fish.1844, William Graeme Rhind, The Creation: A Series of Letters from a Father to His Children

Forms of dolphin-striker

pluraldolphin-strikers

Origin of dolphin-striker

From dolphin + striker.

Questions about dolphin-striker

What is dolphin-striker the alternative form of?
Dolphin-striker is the alternative form of dolphin striker.

Words near dolphin-striker in the dictionary

  1. Dolphin Sands
  2. dolphin shorts
  3. dolphin striker
  4. dolphin strikers
  5. dolphin-friendly
  6. dolphin-striker
  7. dolphin-strikers
  8. dolphinaria
  9. dolphinarium
  10. dolphinariums
  11. dolphinese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dolphin-striker (page history and authors); dolphin striker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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