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Synonyms for outrigger


Grammar : Noun
Spell : out-rig-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈaʊtˌrɪg ər



Définition of outrigger

Origin :
  • device used in Pacific and Indian oceans to stabilize canoes, 1748, altered (by influence of rig) from outligger (late 15c.) "a spar projecting from a vessel," probably from the same root as Dutch uitlegger, literally "out-lyer."
  • As in canoe : noun light, paddled boat
Example sentences :
  • About seventy outrigger boats of all sizes lie on the beach.
  • Extract from : « Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific » by Felix Speiser
  • Single canoes are not so easily separated from their outrigger.
  • Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • The larger sort do not require what we may call the outrigger rowlocks.
  • Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • Of the two canoes, one is smaller than the other, and the smaller serves by way of an outrigger.
  • Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • It has an outrigger; and outrigger, mast, and yard are of bamboo.
  • Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • Had the nerve to say we fouled his boat, and broke that outrigger, Lossing.
  • Extract from : « Fred Fenton on the Crew » by Allen Chapman
  • When that outrigger smashed they were a quarter of a length ahead.
  • Extract from : « Fred Fenton on the Crew » by Allen Chapman
  • It is necessary that the outrigger should always be on the windward side.
  • Extract from : « The Evolution of Culture » by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
  • This was rigged to run from the spritsail-yard to an outrigger aft.
  • Extract from : « With Porter in the Essex » by James Otis
  • I could not get into an outrigger after seeing the great sculler.
  • Extract from : « The Open Air » by Richard Jefferies

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