Brig and Sloop

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Brig

Brig noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
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Sloop and brig are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sloop" instead a noun "Brig".

Sloop

Sloop noun - A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
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Brig and sloop are semantically related in boat propelled with wind by sailcloth topic. You can use "Brig" instead a noun "Sloop".

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  • Literature / Aubrey-Maturin She's called a ship-sloop, a three-masted unrated ship, but is actually a brig, which is two-masted.
    Source: Literature / Aubrey-Maturin
  • Cool Boat Kydd's first command, the brig-sloop Teazer.
    Source: Cool Boat
  • Literature / Horatio Hornblower Hornblower himself captures the merchant's abandoned private yatch (a former Navy brig-sloop), then, through verbal trickery, avoids surrendering it or starting a war with the Spanish and Dutch naval officials.
    Source: Literature / Horatio Hornblower
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