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noun Nautical.
- a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail with square upper sails.
- hermaphrodite brig.
noun
- a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
“small two-masted ship,” 1520s, from Middle French brigandin (15c.), from Italian brigantino, perhaps “skirmishing vessel, pirate ship,” from brigante “skirmisher, pirate, brigand” from brigare “fight” (see brigade).