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outrigger (n.)
device used in Pacific and Indian oceans to stabilize canoes, 1748, altered (by influence of
rig
) from
outligger
(late 15c.) "a spar projecting from a vessel," probably from the same root as Dutch
uitlegger
, literally "out-lyer."
