outrigger

Meaning of outrigger

noun
  1. Any of various projecting beams or spars that provide support for a sailing ship's mast.
  2. A long thin timber, pontoon, or other float attached parallel to a canoe or boat by projecting struts as a means of preventing tipping or capsizing.
  3. An outrigger canoe or boat.
  4. An iron bracket or brace for an oarlock projecting from the side of a rowing boat.
  5. An extension mechanism, often retractable when not in use, on a boat, vehicle, or structure which helps to stabilize it to keep it from tipping over.
  6. A type of ski pole, with skis attached at the bottom, instead of the spike/pick found on a normal pole. It is used in downhill skiing variants of para-skiing, especially those that use a sit-ski, such as the monoski.

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Hyphenation of outrigger

out-rig-ger

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • outrigger is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of outrigger

Words that rhyme with outrigger

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