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noun

outrigger n.

Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

(Naut.)

(a)

A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.

(b)

A boat thus equipped.

(c)

A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end; also used attributively, as an outrigger canoe.

(Aeronautics) A projecting frame used to support the elevator or tail planes, etc.

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Etymology of 'Outrigger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outrigger" Quotes from Famous Books

... the trunk of a tree hollowed out, some twenty feet in length, having long planks fastened lengthwise so as to form the sides or gunwales of the boat, which is two feet and a half deep and two feet wide. An outrigger, consisting of a log of wood about one third the size of the canoe, is fastened alongside at a distance of some six or eight feet, by two arched poles of well-seasoned bamboo. This outrigger prevents any possibility ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... beach, panting and groaning, but resolutely seeking for cocoanuts. Quickly she found one, and, as she glanced around, a second. She broke one, drinking its water, which was mildewy, and eating the last particle of the meat. A little later she found a shattered dugout. Its outrigger was gone, but she was hopeful, and, before the day was out, she found the outrigger. Every find was an augury. The pearl was a talisman. Late in the afternoon she saw a wooden box floating low in the water. When she dragged it out on the beach its contents ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

Words linked to "Outrigger" : stabiliser, outrigger canoe, stabilizer