"dolphin striker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1844, William Graeme Rhind, The Creation: A Series of Letters from a Father to His Children",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1846, Jack's Life at Sea: By an Old Irish Captain of the Head., page 366",
          "text": "I ordered the Captain of the forecastle, to run out on the bowsprit with the end of a two inch at once, and throw a running bowline knot over his shoulders, and by-and-by, when he broke adrift from the dolphin striker, we hauled him in by the head; and the same night or next morning, I had a good beefsteak cut off him near his tail, and a capital one it was, too, you would hardly have known it from the regular beef.",
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          "ref": "1857, John McNeill Boyd, A Manual for Naval Cadets, page 173",
          "text": "The dolphin striker is slung near the cap; and the sprit-sail gaffs near the rigging by \"jaw ropes,” and supported at their ends by lifts from the bowsprit cap.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Sir George Strong Nares, Seamanship, page 71",
          "text": "An iron band with studs for the martingale and back ropes to be fitted to is frequently used on the dolphin striker.",
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        "A near-vertical spar between the bowsprit and martingale"
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          "spar",
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          "bowsprit",
          "bowsprit"
        ],
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          "martingale",
          "martingale"
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        "(nautical) A near-vertical spar between the bowsprit and martingale"
      ],
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        "nautical",
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "spar",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pennaccino"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "sakal",
          "sense": "spar",
          "word": "صقال"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "spar",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "delfiniak"
        }
      ],
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        "dolphin striker"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "dolphin striker"
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          "ref": "1844, William Graeme Rhind, The Creation: A Series of Letters from a Father to His Children",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Jack's Life at Sea: By an Old Irish Captain of the Head., page 366",
          "text": "I ordered the Captain of the forecastle, to run out on the bowsprit with the end of a two inch at once, and throw a running bowline knot over his shoulders, and by-and-by, when he broke adrift from the dolphin striker, we hauled him in by the head; and the same night or next morning, I had a good beefsteak cut off him near his tail, and a capital one it was, too, you would hardly have known it from the regular beef.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, John McNeill Boyd, A Manual for Naval Cadets, page 173",
          "text": "The dolphin striker is slung near the cap; and the sprit-sail gaffs near the rigging by \"jaw ropes,” and supported at their ends by lifts from the bowsprit cap.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Sir George Strong Nares, Seamanship, page 71",
          "text": "An iron band with studs for the martingale and back ropes to be fitted to is frequently used on the dolphin striker.",
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        }
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "spar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pennaccino"
    },
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      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "sakal",
      "sense": "spar",
      "word": "صقال"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "spar",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "delfiniak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dolphin striker"
}