·noun A Bridge.
II. Brig ·noun A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
III. Brig ·add. ·noun On a United States man-of-war, the prison or place of confinement for offenders.
an utensil used in brewing and in dairies to set the strainer upon. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A two-masted square-rigged vessel, without a square main-sail, or a trysail-mast abaft the main-mast...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(See hermaphrodite and brigantine, by which, term she is at present classed in law.) Square-rigged o...
A vessel with square sails, a fore-and-aft main-sail, and a jigger-mast with a smaller one. (See ket...