Frigate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRIGATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
• medium-sized fast warship
• Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
• Any small vessel on the water.
• a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
• a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sailing vessel

Words related to FRIGATE

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Words that contain FRIGATE

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How to use FRIGATE in a sentence

• At length, in 1841, Captain Stockton was authorized to proceed with the construction of a screw steam frigate of about one thousand tons.
• Moving rapidly, it approached within twenty feet of the frigate.
• Even should this frigate turn out to be the Proserpine herself, she can claim no better origin.
• The interior arrangements of the frigate corresponded to its nautical qualities.
• A main body of eighteen to twenty, fifty miles west of Cadiz, a frigate squadron close in to the harbor, and two groups of ships-of-the-line extended between these extremes.
• Half an hour afterwards I got under weigh, and as I steamed about in the offing I saw the Greek frigate coming round the point.
• If in the course of the summer they cannot produce peace, we shall recall our force, except one frigate and two small vessels, which will keep up a perpetual blockade.
• For some little while the frigate held on her course for the mouth of the Thames.
• Lying at the entrance they found a frigate, which in those days meant a very small craft, not much larger than a rowing boat.
• Prince Charles, in the frigate, continued his course to the western isles of Scotland.
• He quickly seized the criminals, hurried them on board a frigate which lay off the coast, and sent them to England.
• England is a frigate, attacked by a corsair of immense strength and size.
• And in a few minutes the frigate to starboard fired a shot across his bows and hoisted her French flag.
• There was a buoyancy of spirits in Newton when he once more found himself clear of the frigate.
• Such was the formidable character of this pirate and his crew, that a frigate was sent to convey them to England for trial.
• The fifty-seventh vessel, which I boarded in this harbour, was the Melampus frigate.
• At daybreak the next morning one British frigate was astern within five or six miles, two more were to leeward, and the rest of the fleet some ten miles astern, all making chase.
• June 22d, 1807, at noon, the United States frigate Chesapeake, thirty-eight guns, left her anchorage at Hampton Roads, and put to sea, bound for the Mediterranean.
• Monsieur de Conway waited the equipment of La Nymphe frigate, in which ship he proposed returning to France.
• We can enter the harbour now that the Island battery is silenced and the frigate Arethuse gone.
• Vincent, a clever young captain of a frigate, to whom he was devoted, to take the dispatches to Lisbon.
• The Clorinde frigate, in going out of the harbour, grounded under Fort St.
• One evening, off Havre de Grace, just as it was growing dark, we were standing off shore, and met with a fine large French-built frigate.

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