brig

• IPA: /bɹɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

brig (plural brigs)

1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
   • 1790, Burns, Robert, Tam o' Shanter:

     Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;

Clipping of brigadier

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• RGBI

Inherited from Old English bryċġ.

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

brig

1. bridge

• brigg, bryg, bregg

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • → English: brig, brigg

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲiɣʲ/

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ.

brig m

1. bank, shore (of a river)

• brigg, breeg

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

brig

1. bridge

   Stirling Brig ― Stirling Bridge

   The craic brig ― The craic bridge (craic is an Irish spelling of the word crack, but both spellings have the same meaning)

   • 1839, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎:

     “Dinna flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre […].

     “Don’t flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre.

• → English: brig, brigg

From English brig.

brig m (Cyrillic spelling бриг)

1. A brig (two-masted vessel)

• brik

• IPA^(key): /briːɡ/

brig m (plural brigau)

1. crest, peak, summit, top