BRIG


Meaning of BRIG in English

n. 1 a two-masted square-rigged ship, with an additional lower fore-and-aft sail on the gaff and a boom to the mainmast. 2 US a prison, esp. on a warship.

[ abbr. of BRIGANTINE ]

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