Noun:

Outrigger,

outrigger's Usage Examples:

When the machine had travelled only a few hundred feet, all four of the small outrigger wheels were fully engaged, which showed that the machine was lifting at least 8000 lb.

These boats are either plain dug-outs, with or without outriggers, or regularly built by planks tightly laced and well caulked to an excavated keel.

I managed to find some sill sections on ebay, and I bought some new front chassis outriggers from a specialist over the phone.

Except for the trireme none of these galleys had outriggers they were all worked over the gunwale.

This part will be replaced after the rear outrigger has been replaced.

Rigger (or outrigger) The device that connects the oarlock to the shell and is bolted to the body of the shell.

The war canoe (which is a long, narrow dug-out outrigger, capable of holding twenty-eight men) is only a transport, for they never fight in it.

Their voyages of many months' duration, in great canoes sailing with outrigger to windward, well-provisioned, and depending on the skies for fresh water, help to show how the Pacific was colonized.

DAY 3 We crossed the river by outrigger canoe to the main rainforest.

outrigger scull A craft sculled by a man using two sculls or short oars, one in each hand.

long, in the hope that when the speed reached a certain point it would leave the rails, but it was prevented from rising more than an inch or so by four arms, or outriggers, furnished with wheels, which projected from its sides and ran under an inverted wooden upper or safety track outside the railway track proper.

Go for an outrigger canoe excursion or the adrenaline rush of parasailing.

Synonyms:

outrigger canoe, stabilizer, stabiliser,

Antonyms:

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