gun brig

American  

noun

1. a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.

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Etymology

Origin of gun brig

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

I next served with him on board the Pelican, a fourteen gun brig to which he was soon afterwards appointed.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald

Wyzinski courteously declined, urging that they must wait until the “Alert” gun brig should touch at Quillimane, as they were without funds, and unable to pay their passage to the Cape.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux

Her course could be traced by the blazing hulls that she left in her wake and this was how the British gun brig Pelican finally caught up with her.

From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

A French Navy ship—a corvette—about fifteen guns a-side maybe, and t'other's an English gun brig; making rare game of her she is too.

From Carette of Sark by Oxenham, John

The other ships were the Triumph, Sir Erasmus Gower, the Brunswick, and Bellerophon, seventy-fours, the Phaeton and Pallas frigates, and the Kingfisher, an eighteen gun brig.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald