Definition

Adjective: 1. Fitted with an outrigger: Describes a boat, canoe, or ship that is equipped with an outrigger—a projecting structure, typically a float or a secondary hull, attached to the side of the main hull by one or more rigid frames. * The primary purpose is to provide stability and prevent the vessel from capsizing. * The structure can also serve to support an oarlock (rowlock) or to help secure a mast.

Usage Notes

• The term is most commonly used in the context of traditional watercraft from the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and other maritime regions.
• It is a descriptive term for the vessel's design and construction, not a temporary state. A boat is built or designed as outrigged.
• The word is often used in its past participle form ("The canoe was outrigged") to describe the state of being equipped with an outrigger.

Examples

• The fishermen used a traditional outrigged canoe for their daily trips.
• For the race, all competing vessels must be single-hulled and outrigged.
• The design of the outrigged prahu provides exceptional stability in rough seas.
• This ancient seafaring culture is renowned for its large, outrigged sailing canoes.

Advanced Usage

• The concept can be applied metaphorically to describe any structure or system that has a projecting support for stability, though this is a technical or figurative extension.
  • The experimental aircraft featured an outrigged landing gear for testing.

Variants and Related Words

• Outrigger (noun): The projecting support structure itself.
  • The outrigger snapped in the heavy swell.
• Outrigger canoe (noun phrase): A common type of outrigged vessel.
• Double-outrigged (adjective): A vessel fitted with an outrigger on both sides (also called a when it has two main floats).

Synonyms

• Stabilized (by an outrigger)
• Equipped with an outrigger
• Balanced (by a lateral float)

Antonyms

• Monohull (a boat with a single hull, without stabilizing projections)
• Unstabilized (in this specific nautical context)

Adjective

1. rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc