putka — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brig noun A sailing ship with two masts, both square-rigged.
- counter noun A flat surface for serving customers, preparing food, or conducting business.
- jail noun A building where people are held in custody, typically for short sentences or while awaiting trial.
- nick noun A small cut or notch in a surface, or the exact critical point or moment something happens.
- stockade noun A defensive fence or enclosure made of upright wooden posts.
Senses
putka is used for these senses in English:
- brig (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- counter (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- drunk tank (slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.
- jail A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- nick (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
- stockade (colloquial) A military prison.
- watchhouse A small prison attached to a police station, usually used on a temporary basis.
brig — full definition
- noun A sailing ship with two masts, both square-rigged.
- noun A prison on board a naval ship, or informally, any military jail.
counter — full definition
- noun A flat surface for serving customers, preparing food, or conducting business.
- noun A device or variable that keeps track of a running total.
- verb To respond to or oppose an action, argument, or attack.
- adv In the opposite direction or contrary to something.