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Tall Ships Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Andy Champ" wrote in message ... Wilbur Hubbard wrote: I hope not because a brigantine is a two-masted, square-rigged ship with fore and aft mainsail. A 'brig' is a lubberly shortening of the word 'brigantine.' Wilbur Hubbard http://www.answers.com/brig&r=67 Note that the first definition is from the *American* heritage dictionary (so this is not your language being differnt!), and it has a link to brigantine with the description of the different rig. Andy Wrong! Let me repeat. A brigantine is a two masted vessel, square-rigged but with fore and aft mainsail. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/d.../d0002703.html http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/brigantine http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html#B note: a gaff sail is a fore and aft sail. Wilbur Hubbard Perhaps my snipping is innacurate, or perhaps you are trolling (and no, I am not referring to piscatorial activities) but it seems to me that the three links you have given all have seperate definitions for "Brig", and none of them suggest that it is merely "a lubberly shortening of the word 'brigantine' ". This has little to do with whether the Trust is correct to sell its vessel. Andy |
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