brig

noun4

1. •
   (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
2. •
   A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
3. •
   Brigadier.
4. •
   (Scotland, Northern-England) Bridge.

   • Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig — 1790

verb2

1. •
   (US, old-fashioned) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
2. •
   (US, old-fashioned) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of brigadier.

   • Ogles, an entrepreneur, will defeat state House Speaker Beth Harwell and retired Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead. — 2022