hermaphrodite brig

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a two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast (triangular topsail over a gaff mainsail). As such it has a mix of the two main types of sail plan, hence the term hermaphrodite

About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails. — Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman, 1846.

A two-masted vessel with a square-rigged foremast and a schooner-rigged mainmast

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hermaphrodite brigs
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