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brig - use in sentences
Converse of object
- capture: During a stormy night on 5 February 1801 AMELIA captured the French privateer brig LA JUSTE of St. Malo.
- dismast: A dismasted brig is generally dated to the end of the earlier period, that is around 1809-10.
- build: Colibri was a French built brig, captured in 1809 by Melampus, which had been part of Pellew's western frigate squadron.
- call: They were mostly small cargo vessels, called brigs and schooners, with crews of seven to ten men each.
Adjective modifier
- French: In the meantime a young lieutenant Thomas Hardy had succesfully cut out a French brig from the harbor at Santa Cruz, Tenerife.
- English: He said it was an English brig, with a good captain, who would take us all on board.
- old: At an early age he was apprenticed to the old sailing brigs of the East Coast.
- large: A large brig from Gothenburg on its way to Liverpool narrowly missed the Bell Rock.
- Danish: A little to the west a Danish brig, cargo fruit, was driven ashore.
- small: The Yealm is navigable for sloops and small brigs, to Kitley Key.
Modifies a noun
- sloop: A 10-gun brig sloop of the Cherokee class she was two years old and the first command of her captain, Cdr.
Noun used with modifier
- collier: In London, the term " sea-coal " once meant coal shipped to London River in Tyne collier brigs from innumerable Tyne coal staithes.
- sailing: At an early age he was apprenticed to the old sailing brigs of the East Coast.
- gun: He was then given command of an 18 gun brig, Colibri.
- 10-gun: The Beagle was a 10-gun brig, launched in 1820 from the Woolwich Royal Dockyard on the Thames.
- i'r: Ni chaiff cymunedau eu creu o'r brig i'r bôn; cânt eu ffurfio o'r bôn i'r brig.
- coal: Tattersall's Surprise 60 ton coal brig was scarcely bigger than a local modern day shallow water fishing vessel.
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