name
Meaning 1
A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
brig
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name
Meaning 2
A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
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noun
Meaning 3
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 4
A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
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Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 5
Bridge.
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Usage: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland
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noun
Meaning 6
Brigadier.
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verb
Meaning 7
To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
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verb
Meaning 8
To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
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Usage: US, dated
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noun
Meaning 9
a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: penal institution, penal facility
noun
Meaning 10
two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
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Broader terms: sailing vessel, sailing ship
History
Etymology
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.
Clipping of brigadier.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: bergantí — two-masted vessel
- Czech: briga — two-masted vessel
- Dutch: brigantijn — two-masted vessel
- Dutch: brik — two-masted vessel
- Finnish: priki — two-masted vessel
- French: brigantin — two-masted vessel
- Galician: bregantín — two-masted vessel
- German: Brigg — two-masted vessel
- Greek: μπρίκι (bríki) — two-masted vessel
- Greek: πάρων (páron) — two-masted vessel
- Hungarian: brigg — two-masted vessel
- Irish: bruig — two-masted vessel
- Italian: brigantino — two-masted vessel
- Māori: pereki — two-masted vessel
- Norwegian Bokmål: brigg — two-masted vessel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brigg — two-masted vessel
- Polish: bryg — two-masted vessel
- Portuguese: brigue — two-masted vessel
- Portuguese: brigantim — two-masted vessel
- Romanian: bric — two-masted vessel
- Russian: бриг (brig) — two-masted vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: brig — two-masted vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: brik — two-masted vessel
- Spanish: bergantín — two-masted vessel
- Swedish: brigg — two-masted vessel
- Turkish: brik — two-masted vessel
- Catalan: calabós — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Dutch: cachot — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Dutch: legergevangenis — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Dutch: militaire gevangenis — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Dutch: scheepsgevangenis — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Dutch: gevang — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Finnish: putka — naval military jail or guardhouse
- French: cachot — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Galician: calabós — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Galician: câbozo — naval military jail or guardhouse
- German: Arrestzelle — naval military jail or guardhouse
- German: Militärgefängnis — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Greek: μπαλαούρο (balaoúro) — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Russian: гауптва́хта (gauptváxta) — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Russian: ка́рцер (kárcer) — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Russian: тюрьма́ (tjurʹmá) — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Spanish: calabozo — naval military jail or guardhouse
- Swedish: arrest — naval military jail or guardhouse