brig
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
Other meanings
A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
A kind of
- sailing vessel
Word history
From Italian "brigantino".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “brig” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.