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brig

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noun/bɹɪɡ/
  1. 1

    A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.

    • Dorey harbour is in a fine bay, at one extremity of which an elevated point juts out, and, with two or three small islands, forms a sheltered anchorage. The only vessel it contained when we arrived was a Dutch brig, laden with coals for the
  2. 2

    A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.US

verb/bɹɪɡ/
  1. 1

    To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.USdated

  2. 2

    To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.USdated

noun/bɹɪɡ/
  1. 1

    Bridge.Northern-EnglandNorthern-IrelandScotland

    • Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;
noun/bɹɪɡ/
  1. 1

    Brigadier.

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