brig

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
brig
    n 1: two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
    2: a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brig \Brig\, n. [Origin unknown.] (Nav.)
   On a United States man-of-war, the prison or place of
   confinement for offenders.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brig \Brig\, n.
   A bridge. [Scot.] --Burns.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brig \Brig\, n. [Shortened from {Brigantine}.] (Naut.)
   A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Hermaphrodite brig}, a two-masted vessel square-rigged
      forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in
      Appendix.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "brig":
      POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
      bridewell, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp,
      condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row,
      detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol,
      guardhouse, guardroom, house of correction, house of detention,
      industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep,
      labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison,
      minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony,
      penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison,
      prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory,
      sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
      training school
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