brig

Meanings

1. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

1. To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
2. To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

1. Bridge.

1. Brigadier.

1. A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
2. A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.

Etymology

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