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Definition: Outrigger |
OutriggerNoun1. A stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or pontoon parallel to the hull. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "outrigger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Strong boom to spread the fishing gear. The outrigger is usually fastened to the mast and extends out from the sides of the vessel towing two or more trawls by means of ways passing through blocks at the ends of the outrigger. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Outrigger . The leader of a unicorn team. The Earl of Malmesbury, in 1867, so called the representative of the minority in the three-cornered constituency. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A support that can be extended from an aerial ladder or aerial platform apparatus to stabilize the truck chassis. Also called: ground jack, jack, outrigger, stabilizer. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Ancillary landing gear near wingtip or at other location well outboard from centreline on aircraft with bicycle or other type of centreline landing gear(LG). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | An outward extension of a frame that is supported by a jack or block. Usedto increase stability. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Outrigger |
| English words defined with "outrigger": Bumkin ♦ outrigger canoe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "outrigger": beam trawler ♦ ground jack ♦ outrigger boom, outrigger jack, outrigger trawler ♦ walking dragline. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Outrigger" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (outrigger, shell). |
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 | A native outrigger canoe in the Bismarck Archipelago. In: "Das Deutsche Kolonialreich," by Hans Meyer, 1909. Vol II, p. 432. Library Call Number: Cfd M612 d. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Native Micronesian fishermen greeting the TOWNSEND CROMWELL Few Micronesians use traditional sailing outrigger canoes today. Credit: Small World. |
 | Native dwelling on left - boathouse for outrigger canoe on right. Credit: Small World. |  | Outrigger canoe. To launch, the outrigger would be raised allowing the canoe to slide down the incline. Credit: Small World. |
 | Native home with Yapese money stones indicating great wealth. Stones were mined on Palau and carried by outrigger canoe 300 miles. Money stones are quarried from stalactites in limestone caves. Credit: Small World. |  | Fanning Island lagoon shoreline with native outrigger. Credit: Small World. |
 | Native boat shed for outrigger canoe. Credit: Small World. |  | In a Pacific Ocean port during her shakedown cruise, circa mid-1923. Note the outrigger canoe in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Operating in the vicinity of the Coral Sea, April 1942. Photographed from a TBD-1 torpedo plane that has just taken off from her deck. Other TBD and SBD aircraft are also ready to be launched. A F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighter is parked on the outrigger just forward of the island. Other ships in company include a fleet oiler, a destroyer and a heavy cruiser. This view has been retouched to censor the radar antenna mounted atop Yorktown's foremast. Credit: NAVY. |  | Antiaircraft gun carriage.Thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriages on the assembly line. After the frame has been assembled these workers start to assemble the various parts. Bearing ring for the gun mount, outrigger mountings, etc. War Program. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Outrigger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Outrigger" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "outrigger": outrigger boom ♦ outrigger canoe ♦ outrigger jack ♦ outrigger trawler ♦ outrigger wheel. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "outrigger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | krah (arm, bay, beam, boom, bundle, cantilever, console, fin, flank, hand, outhouse, pinion, Pinna, shoulder, side, wing, winger), bilancier (balance). (various references) | |
Arabic | مداد, سباق (competition, contest, dash, race, racing), زورق سباق, ركيزة (crutch, mounting, pier, pillar, prop, stanchion, stilt, string, strut). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стрела (arrow, bolt, boom, dart, jibe, lead, shaft), рамка с гнезда за греблата, конзолна греда (needle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 舷外架. (various references) | |
Czech | strážná loï. (various references) | |
Danish | udriggerbom (outrigger boom). (various references) | |
Dutch | outrigger (outrigger boom), steunbalk (bracing, outrigger wheel), spriet (aerial, antenna, blade, stalk, wit), giek (boom, jib-boom, outrigger boom, spanker boom), boom (tree). (various references) | |
Farsi | پایه (Base, Basis, Bedrock, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Phase, Pillar, Prop, Root, Sill, Stage, Stalk, Stanchion, Status, Stock, Stratum), پاروگیر, تیردگل قایق , دم طیاره , بست (Girth, Spanner). (various references) | |
Finnish | pönkkäpuomi (outrigger boom), levityspuomi (outrigger boom), levittäjä (outrigger boom). (various references) | |
French | outrigger, vérin de calage (outrigger jack), tangon de pêche (outrigger boom), tangon (outrigger boom), talon hydraulique, talon articulé, bout dehors (outrigger boom), balancine (outrigger wheel). (various references) | |
German | ausleger (boom, interpreter, jib, jig, rowlock). (various references) | |
Greek | κέρκος (cauda, outrigger boom), βαρδαφόγος (outrigger boom), βοηθητικό στυλίδιο προσγείωσης (outrigger wheel), μπούμα (boom, outrigger boom, spanker, trysail), προώστης (outrigger boom), εξωτερικό στήριγμα ακάτου, δοράτιο (outrigger boom). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kivetõvel ellátott vitorláscsónak. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gandung. (various references) | |
Italian | carrellini alari (outrigger wheel), buttafuori (jockey pole, outrigger boom, reaching strut), bilanciere (balancer). (various references) | |
Korean | 아우트리거. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outriggeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tangão (outrigger boom), retranca (outrigger boom), pluma (crest, egret, feather, plume), guiga, forquilha de brandal, escora (anchor, bearer, bond, prop, puncheon, spur, stanchion). (various references) | |
Romanian | suport exterior al vâslelor, longeron (longeron, span), furchet, barcã cu furchet. (various references) | |
Russian | утлегарь (jib boom, jib-boom), укосина (cantilever, gibbet, jib), шлюпка с выносными уключинами, вынесенный раскос, валек (battledore, singletree, swingletree), аутригер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta trkačkog čamca, potpora za čamac da se ne prevrne. (various references) | |
Spanish | tangón (outrigger boom), puntal (brace, pitprop, prop, puncheon, shore, stanchion, strut), portarremos exterior, bote con portarremos exterior, bote con batanga, botalón (boom), batanga, balancín (balance pole, balancer, rocker, seesaw, singletree, sway-beam, yoke). (various references) | |
Swedish | utriggare, utriggarbom (outrigger boom). (various references) | |
Turkish | dirsekli iskele, dirsekli çıkıntı, avara demiri. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утлегар (jib boom), шлюпка з виносними кочетами, консольна балка будівлі, орчик для посторонків, аутригер. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "outrigger": outriggers. (additional references) | |
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"Outrigger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oatrigg, outrager. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: groutier. | |
-2 letters: goutier, grouter, trigger. | |
-3 letters: goiter, goitre, gorger, gorget, gorier, gouger, rigger, rigour, rioter, router, rugger, tourer, tugger, turgor. | |
-4 letters: ergot, erugo, gigot, gigue, gorge, gouge, grego, griot, grout, guiro, gurge, ourie, outer, outre, rerig, retro, rigor, roger, rogue, rouge, route, tiger, togue, trier, trigo, truer, urger, uteri. | |
-5 letters: ergo, etui, euro, giro, girt. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outriggers. | |
+4 letters: regurgitation. | |
+5 letters: counterarguing, overregulating, regurgitations. | |
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