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OUTRIGGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does outrigger mean?
• OUTRIGGER (noun)
The noun OUTRIGGER has 1 sense:
1. a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
Familiarity information: OUTRIGGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("outrigger" is a kind of...):
stabiliser; stabilizer (a device for making something stable)
Holonyms ("outrigger" is a part of...):
outrigger canoe (a seagoing canoe (as in South Pacific) with an outrigger to prevent it from upsetting)
Context examples
Next, in the line of breakers he made out a small canoe, an outrigger canoe.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He would be away, in the South Seas, building his grass house, trading for pearls and copra, jumping reefs in frail outriggers, catching sharks and bonitas, hunting wild goats among the cliffs of the valley that lay next to the valley of Taiohae.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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