brig
Plural: brigs
Noun
- A two-masted, square-rigged ship.
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- Bridge.
- Brigadier.
Verb
- To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
- To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
Examples
- He was stuck in a letter brig with four ’I’s on his rack.
Origin / Etymology
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
Scrabble Score: 7
brig: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrig: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brig: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
brig: valid Words With Friends Word