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- a two-masted square-rigged ship, typically having an additional lower fore-and-aft sail on the gaff and a boom to the mainmast双桅横帆船。
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- informal a prison, especially on a warship〈非正式〉(尤指军舰上的)禁闭室。
词源
early 18th cent.: abbreviation of BRIGANTINE (the original sense).