Definition of brig Brig
/bɹɪˈg/ - [brig] - brig
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What does brig mean?
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NounPlural: brigs |
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| brig - a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | ||
| penal facility, penal institution an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public | ||
| brig - two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | ||
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Wiktionary 
- brig (Noun)
A two- masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast. - brig (Noun)
A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or in fiction spacecraft. - brig (Noun)
A Scottish variation of bridge. - brig (Noun)
Brigadier.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- brig (n.)
A bridge. - brig (n.)
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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brig
brig, n. a two-masted, square-rigged vessel. [Shortened from Brigantine.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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brig
or BRIGANTINE, a merchant-ship with two masts. This term is not universally confined to vessels of a particular construction, or which are masted and rigged in a method different from all others. It is variously applied, by the mariners of different European nations, to a peculiar sort of vessel of their own marine.Amongst English seamen, this vessel is distinguished by having her main-sail set nearly in the plane of her keel; whereas the main-sails of larger ships are hung athwart, or at right angles with the ship’s length, and fastened to a yard which hangs parallel to the deck: but in a brig, the foremost edge of the main-sail is fastened in different places to hoops which encircle the main-mast, and slide up and down it as the sail is hoisted or lowered: it is extended by a gaff above, and by a boom below.To BRING by the lee. See To BROACH-TO.To BRING-TO, in navigation, caposer, to check the course of a ship when she is advancing, by arranging the sails in such a manner as that they shall counter-act each other, and prevent her either from retreating or moving forward. In this situation the ship is said to lie-by, or lie-to, having, according to the sea-phrase, some of her sails aback, to oppose the force of those which are full; or having them otherwise shortened by being furled, or hauled up in the brails.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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brig
A two-masted square-rigged vessel, without a square main-sail, or a trysail-mast abaft the main-mast. This properly constituted the snow, but both classes are latterly blended, and the terms therefore synonymous.
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🔤- brig, noun, singular of brigs.
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