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[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

The punishment can include confinement in the brig, forfeiture of pay or dishonorable discharge and it is largely based on how long they were away and whether they were apprehended or returned on their own.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2023

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

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

There are schooners and brigs, warships and fishing smacks, sailing around and around inside whiskey bottles with an apparent disregard for the relative proportions of the necks of bottles and the heights of masts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children.

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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