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hermaphrodite brig

noun

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


hermaphrodite brig

noun

  1. a sailing vessel with two masts, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the aftermast Also calledbrigantine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hermaphrodite brig1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure-head.

An hermaphrodite brig was seventy one days from New Orleans—and a keel boat one hundred and one; the latter to Louisville.

She was a rakish-looking hermaphrodite brig, and in the bright moonlight looked Yankee.

We now ranged up alongside of the other, which proved to be the hermaphrodite brig, Kate Cory, of Westport.

She passed out of hail, but we made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, with Brazilian colors in her main rigging.

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