brig
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They like Wash more than Titch, whom they throw in the brig, but they are nice, relatively speaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Depending on the circumstances, most passengers put in the brig will stay there until they can be handed over to law enforcement officials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Records suggest that the transatlantic voyage aboard the dilapidated brig was his final journey at sea, with one account saying he fell ill and resigned of his own accord, returning home as a paralytic.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
Together, we hacked a terminal, passed the brig override code across a room in a short game of telephone, and unlocked the door so that they could escape.
From The Verge ● Feb. 25, 2022
Lem tried to slip ashore again, and sat out the rest of the storm in the brig.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Instead, he conjured the past as a master of richly detailed historical works brimming with schooners, brigs and sloops, their sails flapping under moody clouds, with shore lights twinkling in the distance.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
A realistic view of the problem of discipline in the U.S. armed forces indicates that if sonny kept his nose clean, there would be no necessity for brigs or for guards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They were taken off onto small snows and brigs, if that they could afford; and others, finding no route of escape upon the water, fled the town by land, praying for mercy.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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