brigantine

What it means

1. nauticala two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

   The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines, That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe, And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke, Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii

   1 more example

   2007, August 26, One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, Episode 321, The King of Animals that Overlooks the Sea! The Dream Ship Magnificently Completed! Umi wo Nozomu Hyakujuu no Ou! Yume no Fune Doudou Kansei! (海を臨む百獣の王! 夢の船堂々完成!): [English captions, Nami, Iceburg, respectively] That big gaffsail seems to have a lot of mobility! It's called brigantine.

   Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig

In a sentence

The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines, That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe, And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke, Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.

c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii

Where it comes from

1. Latinbrigō“to fight”
2. Italianbrigante“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”
3. Middle Frenchbrigandin
4. Englishbrigantine

Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).