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hermaphrodite brig
noun
- a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast.
hermaphrodite brig
noun
- a sailing vessel with two masts, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the aftermast Also calledbrigantine
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hermaphrodite brig1
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Example Sentences
The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure-head.
An hermaphrodite brig was seventy one days from New Orleans—and a keel boat one hundred and one; the latter to Louisville.
She was a rakish-looking hermaphrodite brig, and in the bright moonlight looked Yankee.
We now ranged up alongside of the other, which proved to be the hermaphrodite brig, Kate Cory, of Westport.
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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