brigs

Noun (1)

brig (plural brigs)

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 use of a war-steamer, which was expected daily, on an...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 304
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Noun (2)

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Bridge.
   • Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter

Noun (3)

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

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