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Brig

//bɹɪɡ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
  2. 2
    A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
Noun
  1. 1
    A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  2. 2
    Bridge. Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland

    "Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;"

  3. 3
    Brigadier.
  4. 4
    a penal institution (especially on board a ship) wordnet
  5. 5
    A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. US
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  1. 6
    two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag. US, dated, slang
  2. 2
    To jail, to confine into the guardhouse. US, dated, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.

Etymology 4

Clipping of brigadier.

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