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brigantine

US/ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtin/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,353 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: brigantines

A brigantine is a two-masted sailing ship. A fast brigantine, the brigantine sailed, board the brigantine.

It carries square sails on the front mast and fore-and-aft sails on the back, which is the combination that gives it both speed downwind and the ability to sail closer to the wind. The name comes from the Italian for a skirmisher or pirate.

Definitions of brigantine

  1. 1nounbrigantineA two-masted sailing ship.C2

    “The brigantine set sail with the morning tide, both masts full of canvas.”

brigantine is a ship.

Where it comes from

Middle French brigandin comes from Italian brigante, a skirmisher or pirate.

  1. Latin

    brigō — to fight

  2. Italian

    brigante — skirmisher, pirate, brigand

  3. Middle French

    brigandin

  4. English, today

    brigantine

Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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brigantine in the wild

  • The borough was named for the many shipwrecks in the area, including those of brigantines.

    Brigantine, New Jersey

  • The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partial sail and with the lifeboat missing.

    Mary Celeste

  • STV Black Jack is a brigantine operated by the Ottawa-based youth charity Bytown Brigantine, Inc.

    STV Black Jack

  • Ambrose Light was a brigantine, operated by Colombian rebels during the Colombian Civil War of 1885.

    Ambrose Light (ship)

  • Dei Gratia was a Canadian brigantine built in Bear River, Nova Scotia, in 1871.

    Dei Gratia (brigantine)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.