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Brig vs Brin - What's the difference?

brig | brin |

As nouns the difference between brig and brin

is that brig is a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast while brin is one of the radiating sticks of a fan.

brig

English

(wikipedia brig)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  • (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
    • See also
    * hermaphrodite brig * gun-brig

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) bridge
    • (Burns)

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (brigadier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Brigadier.

    • References

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    brin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the radiating sticks of a fan.
    • (Knight)

    Usage notes

    * The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. (Webster 1913) ----