The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14064 Message #493048
Posted By: Metchosin
27-Jun-01 - 12:02 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Roll Agamemnon Roll / Mars for Evermore
Subject: RE: ROLL, AGEMEMNON, ROLL backround inf
Actually Little Hawk, a spanker is a fore and aft sail set with a gaff and a boom at the aftermost part of a ship. So it does have something originally to do with the backside.