brig

About 1.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
2. noun A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
3. verb To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
4. verb To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
5. noun Bridge.
6. noun Brigadier.

Similar words

bilge slipway airframe path peephole stockade hole pit foxhole guardhouse

Often followed by

was of and gen in to had from with

Word family

brigs