Brig meaning

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A two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on both masts.
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A jail or prison on board a US Navy or Coast Guard vessel.
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A jail or guardhouse, especially on the premises of a US military installation.
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A two-masted ship with square-rigged sails.
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A place where offenders are temporarily confined, as on a warship.
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The guardhouse; prison.
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(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
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(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
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(Scotland) Bridge.

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Origin of brig

  • Short for brigantine Senses 2 and 3, from the use of ships as prisons
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
    From Wiktionary
  • Shortening of brigadier
    From Wiktionary

Brig Sentence Examples

  • The New Brig was built in 1788, mainly owing to the efforts of Provost Ballantyne.

  • Captain Bettesworth who commanded the brig hurried home, and the information he brought was at once acted on by Lord Barham, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who took measures to station a force to intercept Villeneuve outside Ferrol.

  • Cramond Brig was the scene of one of the " roving " adventures of James V., when the life of the " Gudeman of Ballengeich " was saved by Jock Howieson of the Braehead.

  • The proximity of Japan and the Philippines' on the west, and of the Papuan 1 There are authenticated instances of Japanese junks, with living people in them, having been found in various parts of the North Pacific. In 1814 the British brig "Forester" met with one off the coast of California (about 30° N.

  • With the help of a strong detachment of officers and men from the Atlantic coast he equipped a squadron consisting of one brig, six fine schooners and one sloop. Other vessels were laid down at Presque Isle (now Erie), where he concentrated the Lake Erie fleet in July.

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