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brigs, plural;
  1. A two-masted, square-rigged ship with an additional gaff sail on the mainmast

  2. A prison, esp. on a warship

  1. two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
  2. a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
  3. Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general. ...
  4. The word brig, in its most popular present day usage, refers to a military prison on board a United States Navy or Coast Guard vessel, or at an American naval base. The term derives from the US Navy's use of twin-mast sailing ships—or brigs—as prison ships.
  5. The district of Brig is a district in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a population of (as of).
  6. A military prison is a prison operated by the military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime. ...
  7. "The Brig" is the 19th episode of the 3rd season of Lost, and the 68th episode overall. It aired on May 2, 2007. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Eric Laneuville. ...
  8. The Brig is a play written by former U.S. Marine Kenneth H. Brown (born 1936). It was first performed in New York by The Living Theatre on 13 May 1963 with a production of it filmed in 1964 by Jonas Mekas. It has been revived in New York in 2007. It received an Obie Award.
  9. A square-rigged vessel, with two masts. An hermaphrodite brig has a brig's foremast and a schooner's mainmnast. (See PLATE 4.)
  10. A rank of officer in the British and Australian armies, above colonel and below major general.
  11. a place of confinement on-board ship, usually located in the FORECASTLE; see CAPTAIN'S MAST, MASTER-AT-ARMS, ROCKS 'n' SHOALS. Also, Naval term for military prison; see THE CASTLE, STOCKADE, GUARDHOUSE, CROSSBAR HOTEL, HOT HOUSE, LBJ, DEADLOCK, CHL, DEADLINE, CLUB FED, UCMJ. ...
  12. A compartment that serves as a jail aboard the ship. Besides this confined sailors would be issued rations of bread and water.
  13. (UK) bridge (the river bridge, not the musical bridge).
  14. Prison on a starship, with one or more holding cells. The cells are usually fully observable from outside, sealed with a forcefield instead of a solid wall (generic).
  15. (abbreviation of Brigantine) Two masted square-rigged vessel, with additional lower fore-and-aft sail on gaff and boom to mainmast.
  16. General Lester Lyles is a commander and chief of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. What his position entails is that he conducts research develops, test and evaluate, and provides the acquisition managers service and logistics support which is necessary to keep the Air Force ...
  17. or (originally) ship a series of square-rigged masts, with staysails between. Brigs originally had exactly three masts. Faster, but requiring more sailors than a bark. A brigantine was a compromise, with a single gaff-rigged mast as the last of three masts. ...
  18. 1. A Brig is a two-masted vessel, square-rigged -- i.e. a vessel with yards and sails set across the masts as opposed to a fore-and-aft rigged craft - on both masts.; 2. in modern terminology brig refers to the holding cell or confinement area used to hold detainees or other "prisoners"
  19. M7 fan whose favorite character is Ezra.
  20. Confinement facility for prisoners aboard a vessel. Off ship facilities are known as jails or prisons.
  21. Rooms equipped with cages in the middle, consisting of horizontal bars re-inforced by powerful force field, used to lock dangerous people away. The Atlantis expedition used the brigs several times to imprison captured Wraith and Genii.^[11]^[12]
  22. Place of confinement aboard ship or ashore at a Marine Corps or naval station; the post prison. Never a stockade.
  23. An area of the station south of the Courtroom and north of Security where people are taken by security after being arrested.
  24. The Sailor's universal term for jail.
  25. Military confinement, i.e. jail.