From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brig \Brig\, noun A bridge. [Scot.] --Burns.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brig \Brig\, noun [Shortened from {Brigantine}.] (Naut.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
{Hermaphrodite brig}, a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Brig \Brig\, noun [Origin unknown.] (Nav.) On a United States man-of-war, the prison or place of confinement for offenders. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
2: a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "brig": POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, guardroom, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school
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