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Definition of Outrigger
1. Noun. A stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull.
Definition of Outrigger
1. 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.
2. n. A projecting frame used to support the elevator or tail planes, etc.
Definition of Outrigger
1. Noun. (nautical) any of various projecting beams that provide support for a mast or, fitted with a float, provide support for a canoe ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) an outrigger canoe ¹
3. Noun. an extention mechanism, often retractable when not in use, on a boat, vehicle, or structure which helps stabilize the boat, vehicle, or structure to keep it from tipping over ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outrigger
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outrigger
Literary usage of Outrigger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"wooden spacer joining outrigger boom and outrigger float on canoe. ... notch in
the side of a canoe into which the outrigger boom is set. ..."
2. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"In some instances the old double outrigger has been retained, ... On being
questioned the Miriam admitted that the single outrigger had been adopted in ..."
3. The Evolution of Culture: And Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1906)
"It is necessary that the outrigger should always be on the windward side.
The outrigger acts as a weight on the windward side, to prevent the narrow canoe ..."
4. A Treatise on Safety Engineering as Applied to Scaffolds by Travelers Insurance Companies (1915)
"outrigger Scaffolds. In the "outrigger" scaffold the platform is supported upon
beams or outriggers (which are also known as "cantilevers", ..."
5. Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway ... on His Sixtieth by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1914)
"figures a canoe from Easter island with a double outrigger, two booms, ...
Single outrigger. Canoes having a single outrigger with two booms characterise ..."
6. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1918)
"outrigger SCAFFOLDS As already noted, outrigger scaffolds are not recommended
where some other form can be used. Where they are used to support workmen and ..."
7. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"Tonga: hama, the outrigger, the smaller part of a double canoe; ... Maori: ama,
the outrigger, in a double canoe the space between the two hulls. ..."
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