hermaphrodite brig

Noun
Synonyms: brigantinehermaphrodite brig

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmastSynonyms: brigantinehermaphrodite brig
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hermaphrodite \Her*maph"ro*dite\, a. Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower. [1913 Webster]

Hermaphrodite brig. (Naut.) See under Brig. --Totten. Hermaphroditic

Brig \Brig\, n. [Shortened from Brigantine.] (Naut.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. [1913 Webster]

Hermaphrodite brig, a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster]

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