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

Example Sentences

The chase proved to be a Spanish hermaphrodite brig.

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

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

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

Coming round Santa Buenaventura, and nearing the anchorage, we saw two vessels in port, a large full-rigged, and a small, hermaphrodite brig.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

Gerrit's got a ship," the other asserted, "not a hermaphrodite brig built like a butter box.

From Java Head by Hergesheimer, Joseph

She was an hermaphrodite brig, and might be, for aught we could see, in the uncertain light, American.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael