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
He was intercepted mid-route by another ship, which returned him to the leaking brig he had tried to escape.
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
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
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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