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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

Shaw also declines to throw Riker and Picard in the brig, though he would be in the right to do so.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

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

For the third time, Lem Harvey was in the brig.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

Through the smoke we saw other launches put in from other brigs and sloops slipping toward the embattled docks.

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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