brig.
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
Meaning & usage
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
Where this word comes from
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
Where this word comes from
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
Bridge.
Where this word comes from
From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.
Brigadier.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of brigadier.
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