hermaphrodite brig
Noun
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Noun
hermaphrodite brig (plural hermaphrodite brigs)
- (nautical) A two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast (triangular topsail over a gaff mainsail).
- 1846, Frederick Marryat, “The Privateersman”:
- About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.
- 1846, Frederick Marryat, “The Privateersman”:
- (two-masted sailing ship) brig-schooner, schooner-brig; (controversial brigantine)
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