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# brig

«brig» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sailing ship with two masts and square sails** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (brigs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A brig is a sailing ship with two masts and square sails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/#m1)

2) A brig can also be a prison on board a ship, so a sailor who breaks the rules is put «in the brig». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a ship in sea stories; «in the brig» means locked up on board

### examples

- The brig sailed out of the harbour at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/#x1)
- There was not a child on board the brig that night who did not love him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/#x2)
- The boys were all in the brig, about to walk the plank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brig» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brig/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.