How to pronounce“brig”in English
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Definitions of “brig”
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 exploring expedition along the coasts of New Guinea, for the purpose of fixing on a locality for a colony.”
A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.