brig

FREQ #16893

n. 禁闭室, 警卫室, 监狱

发音

US /bɹɪɡ/

词形变化

brigs 复数 brigs 三单 brigging 现在分词 brigged 过去式 brigged 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast

    航海 交通
  2. 2.

    A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

    美国
  3. 1.

    Bridge.

    苏格兰
  4. 1.

    Brigadier.

v.
  1. 1.

    To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.

    美国 过时
  2. 2.

    To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

    美国 过时

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

sailing ship sailing vessel

相关短语

Brig Bretach brig rat brig rats Brig o' Turk hermaphrodite brig 双桅帆船

词源

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

来源：wiktionary