brig

Examples

• All

• An American brig is docking with merchandise from London.

  Anthony Adverse (1936)

• My dad and two of his hands boarded the brig-- the ''Resa Jane.''

  The Fog (1980)

• - Do we have a brig on this ship?

  Deep Rising (1998)

• This is a new brig, Captain.

  Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

• The brig Opportunity arrived just yesterday.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Great honor having your eminence on board our little brig, sir.

  Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)

• The sailing ship is barely sketched in, but it is unmistakably a classic brig-sloop of the Cherokee class; see painting detail on page 19.

  Academic text (2009)

• University of California at Berkeley students, including members of the "eleven," boarded the brig William S. Irwin, deserted by strikers, and unloaded its cargo.

  Academic text (1994)

• Mason's team of 20 students embarked this summer aboard the U.S. Brig Niagara, the rebuilt flagship that won the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

  Blog text (2)

• The crew prepared the brig for its next voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

Compounds

H

hermaphrodite brig

• Archaic

9.9

A two-masted sailing ship with square sails on the front mast and long sails along the main mast

How Big

ship

∞ 1.0

barque

• Specialized

1 9.9

brig

• Archaic

3 9.6

brigantine

• Specialized

1 9.9

sloop

6 8.1

cutter

18 6.1

dinghy

18 4.8

Surface Forms

Etymology