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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

brigantin

, fr. It.

brigantino

, originally, a practical vessel. See

, and cf.

]

A practical vessel.

[Obs.]

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

See

Noun.

[L. aphractum; Gr. a vessel without a deck, uncovered. It is usually derived from brigand.] [See Brig.]