Brigs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRIGS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BRIG, a two-masted, square-rigged vessel
• a two-masted square-rigged ship, typically having an additional lower fore-and-aft sail on the gaff and a boom to the mainmast.
• a prison, especially on a warship.
• a bridge.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a two-masted ship

Words related to BRIGS

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How to use BRIGS in a sentence

• They were strong, substantially-built brigs, of about 250 tons burden each.
• This is sometimes illustrated in the case of sloops of war and armed brigs, which are not allowed a regular chaplain.
• The Greek fleet at that time blockading the port consisted of five brigs, and the Turks had fourteen vessels of war in the gulf.
• In 1814, an American squadron of six brigs and schooners sailed from Lake Erie to retake the post of Mackinac.
• Some were sailing to America as crew of the brigs and barks of the Catalunian coast.
• Some knew the Spanish tongue on account of having sailed in brigs from Saint-Malo and Saint-Nazaire, going to the ports of the Argentine, Chili and Peru.
• Walker got alongside of his whale, within half a mile of the two brigs, and to-leeward of both.
• As for the brigs, they were much smaller than their consort, being of less than two hundred tons each, apparently, but also armed and strongly manned.
• The two brigs, which were most to the southward, altered their course, and edged away for the Anne and Martha, leaving the ship to follow the Abraham alone.
• The governor now landed, and went to work seriously, first ordering the Anne carried through the pass, to place her beyond the reach of the brigs.
• One of the brigs went to the assistance of the admiral, while the other endeavoured to silence the gun, which was too securely placed, however, to mind her broadsides.
• It happened that no kind feeling existed between the admiral and the officers of the largest of the brigs.
• The brigs continued their fight, always running off before the wind, and went out of sight, canopied by smoke, long after the reports of their guns had become inaudible.
• The total of inward entries at Philadelphia, in 1793, was 1414 vessels of different sizes, of which 477 were ships or brigs.
• Several sloops and brigs were lying there in a cluster, and a whole fleet of brown-sailed fishing-boats were tacking slowly in.
• Sloops of war were sometimes brigs, but then were usually so styled.
• They numbered thirty-three ships-of-the-line, eighteen French and fifteen Spanish, and were accompanied by five frigates and two brigs, all of which were French.
• The sea seemed covered with them, and I believe we made more than a hundred, most of which were brigs.
• In the whole there were seventeen ships of the line, eight frigates, besides sloops, brigs, schooners, and gun-boats captured by the British admiral.
• Marblehead was then the foremost fishing port with two hundred brigs and schooners on the offshore banks.
• In the following year, two English brigs, the Shannon, Capt.
• At Arecibo, at high water, small brigs may enter with perfect safety, notwithstanding the bar.
• Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather Yet in end their port they fetch.
• At high water small brigs may enter the river of Arecibo with perfect safety and discharge their cargoes, notwithstanding the bar which crosses its mouth.
• Then came the Genoa and Albion, followed by the Dartmouth, Talbot, and brigs, along with the French and Russian squadrons, in more distant succession.
• A single ship, lying at the wharves, and two or three brigs and schooners at anchor in the rivers, composed the whole show of sea vessels then in port.
• Our little boats had come up, and were boring into the brigs.
• Over what smart and lively heeled brigs had they floated, these sinister jolly rogers? For in a room like this they could not be other than genuine.
• Before their advance brigs, barks, and even the magnificent full-rigged ship itself gave way, until now a square-rigged ship is an unusual spectacle on the ocean.
• The New England seaport towns were filled with idle seamen, their harbors with pinks, schooners, and brigs, lying lazily at anchor.
• The vessels were usually brigs or barks, occasionally schooners, ranging from 100 to 500 tons.
• The flood of families going West created a demand that soon covered the lakes with schooners and brigs.
• Large steamers, brigs, and schooners come into it when the river is at flood, and carry out three or four hundred tons of freight each at a time.

Similar words containing BRIG without suffix s

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