spencer

A man’s outer garment or overcoat so short that the skirts of the body-coat worn under it were seen: a fashion introduced about 1800.

A woman’s garment introduced a year or two later, and made in direct imitation of the above.

Nautical, a trapezoidal fore-and-aft sail set abaft the foremast and mainmast; a trysail.

One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.

A short jacket worn by men and by women.

A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; — named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].

a small mast just abaft the foremast or mainmast, for hoisting the spencer.

A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early nineteenth century; probably named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).

A thin knitted woollen vest.

A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards.