Brigantine

[brigantinus med. latin före 1400] Originally a small and swift vessel equipped both for rowing and sailing.

1525, Ld. Berners Troiss. II. clxxi. [clxvii] 498: To save ourselfe, it is best we sende formost our lytell shyppes, called brigandyns, and let vs tary in the mouthe of the hauyn [Oxford English Dictionary].

1611, Cotgr.: Brigantin, a low, long, and swift Sea-vessel, bigger then the fregat, and less then a foist, and hauing some 12 or 13 oares on a side: we call it also a Brigantine [Oxford English Dictionary]..

Ett tvåmastat segelfartyg vilket är fullständigt råriggat på fockmasten och riggat med enbart gaffelsegel och stagsegel på stormasten.

1695, Lond. Gaz. No. 3115/4: At His Majesty's Yard at Chatham, [was launched] a Brigantine named Swift [Oxford English Dictionary]..

1725, De Foe: Voy. round World (1840), 53: Resolving … to mast her not as a sloop but a Brigantine [Oxford English Dictionary]..

Brigantin är hos oß. en Orlogsbrigg men i medelhafwet en sort Galeer.

Updated 1996-06-15 by Lars Bruzelius

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