gun|ter

gun|ter
gun|ter «GUHN tuhr», noun, or gunter rig,
Nautical. a rig in which the topmast slides up and down the lower mast on rings or hoops.
[< Edmund Gunter, 1581-1626, an English mathematician, who invented a mathematical instrument that this rig resembled]

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