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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