Definition of "gun-brig" [gun-brig]

• A small two-masted vessel during the Age of Sail, typically carrying 12 guns, comprising two long guns in the chase position and ten carronades on the broadsides. In the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars this term implied an armed brig smaller than a brig-sloop. (noun)

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• "The gun-brig bore down on them at a great pace, feeling happy certitude that she had got a prize — not a very big one, but still worth catching."
• "This was a gun-brig, not so very much bigger than La"
• "She contented herself with a harmless shot, and leaving the gun-brig to pursue the chase, bore away for more important business."