Re: Tall ****ps Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs

"Ronald Raygun" <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
>
>> A 'brig' is the term used for a prison. You know like, "Throw the
>> bastard into the brig!" Buck up there, man! Call a spade a spade. 
>> It's
>> a 'brigantine.'
>
> Not so.  They are brigs (square rigged on both masts).  Brigantines
> are square rigged only on the fore mast.
>
> That's what it says on Wikipeia at any rate, which cannot always be
> taken for gospel, but ought to be good enough for you.
>

Is that your final answer?

I hope not because a brigantine is a two-masted, square-rigged ****p with 
fore and aft mainsail. A 'brig' is a lubberly shortening of the word 
'brigantine.'

Wilbur Hubbard