Definitions for Brigantine

Brigantine brig·an·tine

Spelling: [brig-uh n-teen, -tahyn]
IPA: /ˈbrɪg ənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn/

Brigantine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 518 anagrams from letters in Brigantine (abegiinnrt).

Definitions for Brigantine

noun

  1. a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail with square upper sails.
  2. hermaphrodite brig.

Origin of Brigantine

1515-25; Medieval Latin brigantinus or Old Italian brigantino, orig., armed escort ship (see brigand, -ine2); replacing brigandy

Examples for Brigantine

See Hermaphrodite and brigantine, by which, term she is at present classed in law.

“A brig or brigantine; a two-masted vessel of some sort,” answered Murray.

Ship after plundering the brigantine gave the same to the said Thos.

The brigantine then lay to; the two ships remained immovable.

An Indian woman revealed to him a plot to set fire to his brigantine on the stocks.

"She's a brigantine, Zeb," observed the keeper, handing up the spyglass.

The brigantine was not a Turks Islands boat, but a coaster from Jamaica.

After luffing to pick him up, the brigantine had been again pulled off on the port tack.

He must have been ashore when I was on board the brigantine; he certainly wasn't in the cabin.

Each brig, brigantine, or schooner, carried three or four apprentices.

Word Value for Brigantine
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