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brig

[brig] / brɪg /


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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

“How long will the Director hold me in the brig? Can I see my parents? Are they okay?”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are schooners and brigs, warships and fishing smacks, sailing around and around inside whiskey bottles with an apparent disregard for the relative proportions of the necks of bottles and the heights of masts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sloops and cutters, brigs and barques, flagged with silks of red and blue and green.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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