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brig

Pronunciation: /bɹɪɡ/

The English word “brig” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
  2. A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
  3. Bridge.
  4. Brigadier.

verb

  1. To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
  2. To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

Etymology

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

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