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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hermaphrodite brig¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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