hermaphrodite brig

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

hermaphrodite brigs plural

词源

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