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Princeton's WordNet

  1. brignoun

    two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts

  2. brignoun

    a penal institution (especially on board a ship)

Wiktionary

  1. brignoun

    A Scottish variation of bridge

  2. brignoun

    Brigadier.

  3. Etymology: Abbreviated from brigantine, from brigantino; jail sense from the use of such ships as prisons

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Brig and possibly also Brix

    Etymology: is derived from the Saxon bricg , a bridge; which, to this day, in the northern counties, is called a brigg, and not a bridge. Edmund Gibson Camden.

Wikipedia

  1. Brig

    A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part of the 19th century. In commercial use, they were gradually replaced by fore-and-aft rigged vessels such as schooners, as owners sought to reduce crew costs by having rigs that could be handled by fewer men. In Royal Navy use, brigs were retained for training use when the battle fleets consisted almost entirely of iron-hulled steamships. Brigs were prominent in the coasting coal trade of British waters. 4,395 voyages to London with coal were recorded in 1795. With an average of eight or nine trips per year for one vessel, that is a fleet of over 500 colliers trading to London alone. Other ports and coastal communities were also be served by colliers trading to Britain's coal ports. In the first half of the 19th century, the vast majority were rigged as brigs, and that rig was retained for longer in the northeast of England.: 49 

ChatGPT

  1. brig

    A brig is a type of sailing ship with two square-rigged masts. It is originated from the term "brigantine". During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. "Brig" can also refer to a jail or prison on a military vehicle like a ship or airplane.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Brignoun

    a bridge

  2. Brignoun

    a two-masted, square-rigged vessel

Wikidata

  1. Brig

    A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Brigs fell out of use with the arrival of the steam ship because they required a relatively large crew for their small size and were difficult to sail into the wind. They are not to be confused with a brigantine, which has different rigging. In the narrow technical field of sailing rigs, a brig is distinct from a three-masted ship by virtue of only having two masts.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. 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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BRIG in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BRIG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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