Brigantine

Word BRIGANTINE
Character 10
Hyphenation brig an tine
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Brigantine"

What do we mean by brigantine?

A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail, often with square main topsails. noun

A small two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both masts, but with a fore-and-aft mainsail and the mainmast considerably longer than the foremast. noun

A robber. noun

Robbery. noun

Same as brigandine. noun

A quarter-galley, known for its delicate lines, swiftness, and quick handling. noun

A practical vessel. noun

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail. noun

See Brigandine. noun

Alternative form of brigandine. noun

A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged on the mainmast noun

Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast noun

A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

A small island directly north of Atlantic City, NJ (you can see it when you stand on the beach), the kids go to ACHS and it is the most poppin town of the whole jersey shore. every teenager in the entire town frequents "the ave" (w brigantine avenue between 8th st s where wawa is and 14th st by ritas) every night between the hours of 8 and 11 pm. everyone pretends to go home at 11 for curfew but really people just smoke pot and drink all night on the beach. one of the few shore towns where shoobies and locals actually get along. you dont come to brigantine because you saw it on the internet as a great place, you come to brigantine because your family has a story behind it. Urban Dictionary

A tiny island at the Jersey Shore connected to Atlantic City by a bridge. It is frequented by shoobies during the summer, but the rest of the year it is completely dead. People who live in the surrounding area (Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate, etc) call Brigantine Narnia because of how desolate and out of the way it is. The residents of Brigantine are strangely odd, similar to the talking animals and mythical creatures in C.S Lewis's Chronicals of Narnia, thus making Brigantine residents known as Narnians. Urban Dictionary

Small little island in south jersey, it has one way on and one way off. The girls have the best titts and pussys, the guys have the bIggest dicks in jersey. Urban Dictionary

A island just across from atlantic city. brigantine is a little secret to those who go and live there. it is small, but lively enough to make up for it. there’s tons of things to do in brigantine, you just have to discover them yourself. if you just look on the outside it may seem like another boring, basic beach. but brigantine is actually a getaway from the real world. Urban Dictionary

The plastic applicator from a tampon. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Brigantine

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The word "brigantine" in example sentences

But I found out that the vessel was not exactly a ship after all, but a sort of half schooner, half brig, -- what they call a brigantine, having two masts, a mainmast and a foremast. ❋ Unknown (1856)

In a later chapter an attempt has been made to place before the reader pictures of the galley, the galeasse, and the nef, which were the names attached to the ships then in use; the name brigantine, far from having the significance attached to it by the sailor of the present day, seems to have been a generic term to denote any craft not included in the names already given. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)

Wreck exposed by Cyclone Yasi identified A SHIPWRECK exposed when Cyclone Yasi hit north Queensland has been identified as the brigantine Belle, lost in 1880. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I recall a brigantine coming into Leith when I was a child and there can't have been more than three men alive on her, and they were near death's door. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

The brigantine was a relic of an ancient period of shipbuilding, and her main cabin fitted her excellently. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

Still in chase of the brigantine, which is making for the land. ❋ Various (N/A)

Yet I had heard of vessels thus modelled for the sake of securing speed, and fitted with a very deep keel to ensure weatherliness, where light draught of water was not a consideration; and it remained to be seen whether the brigantine was a craft of this class. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The brigantine was the _Maori Maid_ of Auckland, Captain Heselton, and the supercargo was young Robert Flemming. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

In short, a brigantine is a mixed vessel, being a brig forward and a sloop aft. ❋ R. [Illustrator] Richardson (1859)

It is true the brigantine was a very beautiful, as well as an exceedingly swift vessel; but all this was lost on Rose, who would have admired a horse-jockey bound to the West Indies, in this the incipient state of her nautical knowledge. ❋ Unknown (1848)

Harry said that even supposing the crew of the brigantine were the greatest ruffians afloat it was very improbable that they would venture to attack us. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Massachusetts Bay should allege, that this case did not necessarily involve a question relative to prize or no prize, when the very jury to whom the court referred the decision of the case established the fact; their verdict was for three thousand and nine pounds two shillings and ten pence, damages, which sum is for the vessel called the brigantine ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

"phanerogamous," or "brigantine" -- and when you understand all the rest of the statement except that word, then as a general rule the dictionary will help to make the meaning clear. ❋ J. H. Gardiner (N/A)

She was a kind of brigantine, not unlike a Dutch galliot of the present day, with a broad elevated bow and a broad elevated stern. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)

But that job can wait until the brigantine is a mile or two further away. " ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten. ❋ Ian Jack (2010)

"It's probably something that was like a coastal schooner or brigantine or sloop," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now arrived Nicholas Biddle, another Philadelphia captain, at the helm of the aptly named brigantine Chance. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

[Shoobie] (to local): finally im back in Brigantine! im so happy! Local (to [shoobie]): yeah, lets go to the beach all day and then smoke a blunt tonight and hang at [ritas]! ❋ Jerseypride (2010)

Girl : Hey- you want to go to that party in Brigantine tonight? Guy : Are you for real? [That place] is [Narnia]... it [is mad] far away. Girl: True. And those silly Narnians... ❋ The Narnian (2009)

Girl 1-Hey Girlfriend, i just fucked that kid Peter in [Brig], his dick streched my pussy so wide, and he took [my virginity] all at once. Girl2- Figures, hes from [brigantine]...... ❋ JP WWRANG (2008)

[i cant] wait to go down to brigantine beach this [weekend], we are gonna [fsu]. ❋ Summer19fsu (2019)

I just found a [brigantine whistle] laying [on the side] of the road . [puke] !! ❋ Snipers215 (2008)

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