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Definition of Hermaphrodite brig

Hermaphrodite brig
Brig Brig, n. [Shortened from Brigantine.] (Naut.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.
Hermaphrodite brig
Hermaphrodite Her*maph"ro*dite, a. Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower. Hermaphrodite brig. (Naut.) See under Brig. --Totten.

Meaning of Hermaphrodite brig from wikipedia

- square sails. Historically, this rig used was called a schooner brig' or hermaphrodite brig. In Europe, the distinction is typically still made. The training...
- America Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite, a book by Michael de Larrabeiti Hermaphrodite brig, a type of sailing ship Hermaphrodite caliper, a type of caliper...
- Scots and Northern English for bridge, Brig o' Doon, Cramond Brig, Brig of Dread. Brig sloop Hermaphrodite brig Brigg, North Lincolnshire, England, a town...
- American usage, a brigantine was referred to as a hermaphrodite brig.) Porpoise was later re-rigged as a brig. She was based on the same plans as Dolphin....
- 1815. Her design is believed to be due to Christian Bergh. She had a hermaphrodite rig, i.e., she combined the rigs of a schooner and a brigantine. "She...
- 6.4750°N 28.400°W / 6.4750; -28.400. 4. November 10: the cargo hermaphrodite brig Susan of Boston is scuttled southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. 5...
- illegally. In January 1813, they took their first prize, a Spanish hermaphrodite brig loaded with 77 slaves. (The United States and the United Kingdom had...
- weighed 192 tons. It had two masts in the configuration known as a hermaphrodite brig: square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. This made it fast...
- square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged" when there are three or more...
- the tug. On 23 May, she seized Sarah M. Newall while that British hermaphrodite brig was attempting to run through the blockade into Savannah, Georgia...