Spanker can refer to:
* One who administers a
spanking
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Spanker (horse)
Spanker (foaled 1678), sometimes called Old Spanker or the Pelham Arabian, was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who sired many important horses in the history of the breed. He was said to be the best horse in Newmarket, the home of British racin ...
, a famous 18th-century
thoroughbred race horse
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Spanker, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* ''SS-17 Spanker'', the NATO reporting name for the
MR-UR-100 Sotka intercontinental ballistic missile
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Spanker (sail)
On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called ''driver'', ''jigger'', and a ''pusher'' sail.
On a schooner of four or more masts, the spanker is the sail ...
, a sail.
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