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

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.

She sailed out o' N'York for Australia and home by the way of the Chile ports and the Horn—a hermaphrodite brig she was; and—she—could—sail!

From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.

As she drew nearer, she proved to be an ordinary-looking hermaphrodite brig, standing south-southeast, 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

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

She was a hermaphrodite brig, and old-fashioned at that.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman