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outrigger

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Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.

A boat thus equipped.

A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A ship with one hull of conventional shape and two small side hulls (outriggers) is called an outrigger ship. Source: Internet

Brown 1970, p. 81. It has two landing gear units on the fuselage and two outrigger landing gear units, one near each wing tip. Source: Internet

Austronesians expansion map An Austronesian outrigger canoe ; Malagasy vahoaka "people" is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *va-waka "people of the canoe". Source: Internet

It appeared that, having developed their sailing outrigger canoes, the Polynesian ancestors migrated from East Asia, moved through the Melanesian area quickly on their way, and kept going to eastern areas, where they settled. Source: Internet

Outrigger canoe An outrigger is a small side hull attached to the main load-carrying hull by two or more struts. Source: Internet

The first fatal accident was on 15 May 1956, when the pilot stalled the aircraft during a post-takeoff maneuver that was intended to drop off the wingtip outrigger wheels. Source: Internet

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