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

This day sailed the Mexican hermaphrodite brig Fazio, for San Blas and Mazatlan.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

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 Raphael Semmes

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

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

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

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

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 Richard Henry Dana