brig
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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
Depending on the circumstances, most passengers put in the brig will stay there until they can be handed over to law enforcement officials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
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
He was intercepted mid-route by another ship, which returned him to the leaking brig he had tried to escape.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
I close my eyes for a second, allowing Fred to lead me back to the brig and my holding cell and the terrible aloneness that waits for me.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
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Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We hear that the citizens upon their schooners, brigs, and snows suffer greatly from hunger, for the rebels will not allow them to land and purchase provisions.
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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