Brigantine (3 syl.)
or Hermaphrodite Brig. A two-masted vessel with a brig’s foremast and a schooner’s mainmast. (Dana’s Seaman’s Manual.) A pirate vessel.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.