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Brog vs Brig - What's the difference?

brog | brig |

As nouns the difference between brog and brig

is that brog is a pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl while brig is force, power.

As a verb brog

is to prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.

brog

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

    • Verb

    (brogg)
  • To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To broggle.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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.

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