outrigger 的定义
- a framework extended outboard from the side of a boat, especially, as in South Pacific canoes, supporting a float that gives stability.
- a bracket extending outward from the side of a racing shell, to support an oarlock.
- the shell itself.
- a spar rigged out from a ship's rail or the like, as for extending a sail.
- a long, flexible rod, attached to a fishing boat near the stern, along which a fishing line may be threaded to keep it clear of the boat's wake when trolling.
- a structure extending outward from a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft to increase stability or provide support for something.
- a projecting beam, as for supporting a hoisting tackle.
- a horizontal steel beam extending the base of a crane.
outrigger 近义词
等同于 canoe
更多outrigger例句
- Only one boat was moving, a long canoe with an outrigger; and from this something white was slowly waving.
- For a moment the canoe rocked in spite of its steadying outrigger, with the violence of the activities aboard it.
- The outrigger acts as a weight on the windward side, to prevent the narrow canoe from being blown over on the opposite side.
- This I consider to be a more natural sequence than to suppose the outrigger invented as a means of steadying the dug-out canoe.
- Wilkes says that whenever the outrigger gets to the leeward side, there is almost invariably an upset.