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Definition of Outrigged
1. Adjective. Rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc.
Definition of Outrigged
1. outrig [v] - See also: outrig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outrigged
Literary usage of Outrigged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natives of Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1906)
"Canoes : raft, bark, dug-out, outrigged canoe. THE Australian native is commonly
represented as possessing no permanent habitation, hardly anything, ..."
2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"usual, by a much smaller set of boys, the stroke, Rich, only weighing 8 st. 5 lb.
So Sir Patrick Colquhoun procured for them an outrigged boat, ..."
3. Rough Ways Made Smooth: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects by Richard Anthony Proctor (1880)
"No wonder that when outrigged boats came in Cambridge oarsmen were loth to modify a
... The first specimens of outrigged racing boats occupied a sort of ..."
4. The Story of the Harvard-Yale Race 1852-1912 by James Wellman, Walter B. Peet (1912)
"In the race of 1855 the Harvard eight-oared barge was slightly outrigged with
wooden pieces spiked to the gunwale; but the crack Harvard boat was supposed ..."
5. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1891)
"Coombes turned the tables on Campbell a few years bter (in 1846), in outrigged
wager boats, constructed with 'open' ends. These open ends were suddenly ..."
6. The Book of the Thames: From Its Rise to Its Fall by Samuel Carter Hall (1877)
"The outrigged wherries are very subject, from the lightness of their build, to
ship the water, to obviate which the head and stern are covered with canvas. ..."
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