Frigates is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRIGATES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FRIGATE, a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line
• a warship with a mixed armament, generally lighter than a destroyer (in the US navy, heavier) and of a kind originally introduced for convoy escort work.
• a sailing warship of a size and armament just below that of a ship of the line.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sailing vessel

Words related to FRIGATES

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How to use FRIGATES in a sentence

• The frigates and transports went up within five miles of Port of Spain.
• In neither case could frigates enter, though sloops of war of larger size might.
• It numbered thirty-two men-of-war and some frigates.
• Some engagements which took place between frigates were of little importance, but glorious for both sides.
• British frigates were stationed off the ports of New York and Hampton Roads, and vessels coming in and going out were stopped, searched, and their sailors impressed.
• This number has since received the addition of a line of battle ship, two frigates, and some other vessels of war.
• If she wished, France could build at the same time forty ships of the line and forty frigates, while twenty-five more were undergoing repairs.
• Starting on the 3d of October with three thousand troops, accompanied by a small naval division of frigates, Clinton in a week had reached West Point, fifty miles up the river.
• In order that they might not report his force or his movements, the British Admiral sent two of his own frigates, with the request that they would speak him.
• On the 7th of January, 1780, a hundred leagues west of Cape Finisterre, the West India ships parted for their destination, under convoy of a ship of the line and three frigates.
• I have only to observe, in my present state, if I meet the enemy at sea, the convoy will get off, for want of frigates.
• The two frigates sent their ships companies aboard the different line of battle ships.
• The French flag was flying on board four ships of the line and two frigates.
• Vincent, and hope that is the station to which Sir John Orde may have directed his frigates to return from watching the route of the enemy.
• The accounts of the additional French fleet are varied from sixteen to nineteen ships of the line, besides frigates.
• Their works for rendering Cherbourg a harbor for their vessels of war, and Dunkirk, for frigates and privateers, leave now little doubt of success.
• In vessels of the class of Frigates and upward, these boxes are to be, on covered decks, kept in their several divisions and secured overhead.
• His force consisted of twelve sail of the line, and three or four heavy frigates.
• His expedition counted thirteen ships of the line, with seven frigates and smaller vessels, making in the whole forty-four sail.
• Vincent to watch the preparations at Toulon, having under him three ships of seventy-four guns and four frigates.
• In the bay were three frigates of twenty guns each.
• Three British frigates were working up to join them.
• When Louis Napoleon completed that triumph of skill and labor, the port of Cherbourg, England trembled more than if he had launched fifty frigates.
• Four regiments of horse were put in training, ten frigates were built and sent to sea and more were under construction.
• The British had twenty-seven sail of the line and four frigates, so that Nelson was outnumbered by five of the line, three frigates, and two brigs.
• The French fleet was increased to thirty-three ships of the line and five frigates, the addition being the Spanish contingent under Admirals Gravina and Alava.

Similar words containing FRIGATE without suffix s

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