brigantine

How To Use brigantine In A Sentence

• The brightly painted Karien brigantine was tied up at the end of the wharf, awaiting her prince. TREASON KEEP
• The brigantine was a relic of an ancient period of shipbuilding, and her main cabin fitted her excellently. Gold Out of Celebes
• But I found out that the vessel was not exactly a ship after all, but a sort of half schooner, half brig, -- what they call a brigantine, having two masts, a mainmast and a foremast. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
• This peculiar form, and the symmetrical arrangement of a few cones which surround the Brigantine, made me at first think that this group, which is wholly calcareous, contained rocks of basaltic or trappean formation. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• Some types such as barkentines and brigantines were introduced in the early 1800s, but were replaced by schooners, which could sail across the wind.
• Yet I had heard of vessels thus modelled for the sake of securing speed, and fitted with a very deep keel to ensure weatherliness, where light draught of water was not a consideration; and it remained to be seen whether the brigantine was a craft of this class. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• The chart holds the key to the location of the wreck of an eighteenth-century brigantine.
• In the making of the sloops, brigantines, barks, and other vessels that were the stock-in-trade of Kingston's shipbuilders, hundreds of deep holes needed to be bored through heavy, oak timbers.
• I recall a brigantine coming into Leith when I was a child and there can't have been more than three men alive on her, and they were near death's door. Sharpe's Trafalgar
• She was some miles inshore of us, and as the day brightened we made her out to be a brigantine (an uncommon rig in those days), standing across our bows, with all studding sails set on the starboard side, indeed everything that could pull, including water sails and save-all. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue