The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) 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). As such it has a mix of the two main types of sail plan, hence the term '''hermaphrodite'''.
WordNet
n. two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast [syn: brigantine]
Usage examples of "hermaphrodite brig".
That afternoon Abner Hale, twenty-one, married ferusha Bromley, twenty-two, whom he had known two weeks and four days, and on the next morning the young couple, accompanied by fourteen barrels of missionary goods, set out for Boston and the hermaphrodite brig Thetis, 230 tons, bound for Owhyhee.
She then hoisted a yellow flag at her peak (for she was an hermaphrodite brig).
The hermaphrodite brig about to become their home had once been part of Zeke’.