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moonsail

[moon-rey-ker] Origin

moon·rak·er

[moon-rey-ker]
noun
1.
Also called moonsail [moon-suhl, -seyl] . Nautical. a light square sail set above a skysail.
2.
a simpleton.

Origin:
1780–90; moon + raker
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Word Origin & History

moonraker
a name traditionally given to Wiltshire people, attested from 1787, is from the stock joke about fools who mistook the reflection of the moon in a pond for a cheese and tried to rake it out. But as told in Wiltshire, the men were surprised trying to rake up kegs of smuggled brandy, and put off the revenuers
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by acting foolish.
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