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FRIGATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("frigate" is a kind of...):
combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frigate"):
guided missile frigate (a frigate that carries guided missiles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("frigate" is a kind of...):
combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)
Context examples:
It was he who, with six rowing-boats, cut out the 44-gun frigate Hermione from under the muzzles of two hundred shore-guns in the harbour of Puerto Cabello.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I’d have a dead dockyard contractor as a figure-head for every first-rate in the fleet, and a provision dealer for every frigate.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the Channel we fell in with the frigate Minerva from the Western Ocean, with her lee ports under water and her hatches bursting with the plunder which had been too valuable to trust to the prize crews.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My father whispered in my ear that his neighbour was Captain Foley, of the Goliath, who led the van at the Nile, and that the tall, thin, foxy-haired man opposite was Lord Cochrane, the most dashing frigate captain in the Service.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Let one of their frigates get to sea and have a couple of years’ free run in which the crew might learn their duties, and then it would be a feather in the cap of a British officer if with a ship of equal force he could bring down her colours.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Did ever a vessel come out of Toulon as my 38-gun frigate did from Plymouth last year, with her masts rolling about until her shrouds were like iron bars on one side and hanging in festoons upon the other?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A convoy, as I can well remember, was coming up it that day, the timid flock of merchantmen in front; the frigates, like well-trained dogs, upon the skirts; and two burly drover line-of-battle ships rolling along behind them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even at Friar’s Oak we had heard how, in the little Speedy, of fourteen small guns with fifty-four men, he had carried by boarding the Spanish frigate Gamo with her crew of three hundred.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From thence, as a reward for his services, he was transferred as first lieutenant to the Aurora frigate, engaged in cutting off supplies from Genoa, and in her he still remained until long after peace was declared.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The line-of-battle ships themselves, tacking on and off outside Brest, could earn nothing save honour; but the frigates in attendance made prizes of many coasters, and these, as is the rule of the service, were counted as belonging to the fleet, and their produce divided into head-money.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
