Noun: brig
Sample Sentences
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Dorey harbour is in a fine bay, at one extremity of which an elevated point juts out, and, with two or three small islands, forms a sheltered anchorage. The only vessel it contained when we arrived was a Dutch brig, laden with coals for the use of a war-steamer, which was expected daily, on an exploring expedition along the coasts of New Guinea, for the purpose of fixing on a locality for a colony. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 304:]
Nouns inflected like brig
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons. See: Italian Nouns '
brigantino'.
Verbs referencing "brig"
French Nouns
brick, Finnish Nouns
priki, Russian Nouns
бриг, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
brigg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
brigg, Spanish Nouns
bricbarca, Irish Nouns
bruig.