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▪ I. brig|brɪg|
Also 8 brigg.
[Abbreviation of brigantine. Cf. cab, mob, zoo., etc.]
1. a. A vessel (a) originally identical with the brigantine (of which word brig was a colloquial abbreviation); but, while the full name has remained with the unchanged brigantine, the shortened name has accompanied the modifications which have subsequently been made in rig, so that a brig is now
(b) A vessel with two masts square-rigged like a ship's fore- and main-masts, but carrying also on her main-mast a lower fore-and-aft sail with a gaff and boom.
A brig differs from a snow in having no try-sail mast, and in lowering her gaff to furl the sail. Merchant snows are often called ‘brigs’. This vessel was probably developed from the brigantine by the men-of-war brigs, so as to obtain greater sail-power.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5848/4 The Ship Blessing, 50 Tuns Burthen, a Brigg..belonging to St. Ives in Cornwall. 1753Scots Mag. Apr. 195/2 Two guarda costa brigs and a sloop of war. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Brig, or Brigantine, a merchant ship with two masts..It is variously applied, by the mariners of different European nations, to a peculiar sort of vessel of their own marine. 1800Nelson Let. 18 Feb. in Duncan Life (1806) 121 The El Corso brig. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. i. 1 Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig..Sailed from Devonport. 1854J. Stephens Centr. Amer. 2 Four ships, three brigs, sundry schooners.
(c) ‘A hermaphrodite brig has a brig's foremast and a schooner's mainmast’ (Dana Bef. the Mast 1840, Gloss.); = brigantine 3.
b. A place of detention, orig. on board a ship; a military or naval prison. slang (orig. U.S.).
1852Knickerbocker XXXIX. 404 In less than a minute I was in the ‘brig’, in double irons. Ibid., They call the place where prisoners are confined, ‘the brig’. 1934A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 13 Our dreamy old mess sergeant was even then languishing in the brig, awaiting trial. 1956J. Masters Bugles & Tiger xxii. 293 My friends were hauled off to spend a day in the brig.
2. Comb. ˈbrig-rigged a., rigged as a brig; brig-schooner, a hermaphrodite brig, or brigantine (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
1796Nelson in Nicolas Disp. II. 177 Transports—La bonne Mère, two hundred and fifty tons, Brig-rigged.
▪ II. brig
northern form of bridge. |