Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hermaphrodite brig

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English

Syllables: hermaphrodite brig
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

1

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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).

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

hermaphrodite brigs (plural)

Synonyms

brig-schooner schooner-brig brigantine

Questions

What does hermaphrodite brig mean?: 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).
Where does hermaphrodite brig come from?: So called because it is a hybrid of the two main types of sail plan.

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