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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts;

2. a penal institution (especially on board a ship);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brig \Brig\, n. A bridge. [Scot.] --Burns. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brig \Brig\, n. [Shortened from Brigantine.] (Naut.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. [1913 Webster] Hermaphrodite brig, a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brig \Brig\, n. [Origin unknown.] (Nav.) On a United States man-of-war, the prison or place of confinement for offenders. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brig n 1: two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts 2: a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "brig": POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, guardroom, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school