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Webster 1913 Edition

Brig

Brig

,
Noun.
A bridge.
[Scot.]
Burns.

Brig

,
Noun.
[Shortened from
Brigantine
.]
(Naut.)
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
Hermaphrodite brig
,
a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

Webster 1828 Edition

Brig

BRIG

, the termination of names, signifies a bridge, or perhaps, in some cases, a town, or burg.

BRIG

,
Noun.
[from brigantine.] A vessel with two masts, square rigged,or rigged nearly like a ship's mainmast and foremast. The term, however, is variously applied by the mariners of different nations.

Definition 2024

brig

brig

See also: bríg

English

a Brig-rigged vessel

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /brɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Noun

brig ‎(plural brigs)

  1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

brig ‎(plural brigs)

  1. (Scotland) bridge
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Etymology 3

Shortening of brigadier

Noun

brig ‎(plural brigs)

  1. Brigadier.

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ.

Noun

brig m

  1. bank, shore (of a river)

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse bryggja

Noun

brig

  1. (chiefly Scotland, Northern England and Ulster)
    Stirling Brig‎ ― Stirling Bridge
    The craic brig‎ ― The craic bridge (craic is an Irish spelling of the word crack, but both spellings have the same meaning)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English brig.

Noun

brig m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бриг)

  1. A brig (two-masted vessel)

Synonyms

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /briːɡ/

Noun

brig m (plural brigau)

  1. crest, peak, summit, top

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
brig frig mrig unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

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