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Hermaphrodite brig

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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).

    "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."

  2. 2
    two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast wordnet

Etymology

So called because it is a hybrid of the two main types of sail plan.

See also for "hermaphrodite brig"

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