hermaphrodite brig

American  

noun

1. a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.

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hermaphrodite brig British  

noun

1. Also called: brigantine.  a sailing vessel with two masts, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the aftermast

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Etymology

Origin of hermaphrodite brig

First recorded in 1830–40

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hermaphrodite brig

As she drew nearer, she proved to be an ordinary-looking hermaphrodite brig, standing south-south-east; and probably bound out, from the Northern States, to the West Indies; and was just the thing we wished to see.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

The Loriotte, we learn, was built at Plymouth, Mass., in 1828, was ninety-two tons, originally a schooner and later changed into an hermaphrodite brig.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

The wind was light, and we spread more canvas than she did, having royals and sky-sails fore and aft, and ten studding-sails; while she, being an hermaphrodite brig, had only a gaff topsail aft.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

She was an hermaphrodite brig of 310 tons, mounting 17 guns.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

One the hermaphrodite brig Kate Cory, of Westport, and the other the barque Lafayette, of New Bedford; the barque we burned, and the brig we brought into the anchorage, arriving after dark, about 7 A.M.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael