frigate
/ˈfɹɪɡ.ət/ nom B2En français : frégate
- A sailing warship (of any size) built for speed and maneuverability; typically without raised upperworks, having a flush forecastle and tumblehome sides.
- A sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling and blockading duties, but not considered large enough for the line of battle.
- A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship.
- An escort warship, smaller than a destroyer, introduced in World War 2 as an anti-submarine vessel.
- A modern type of warship, equivalent in size or smaller than a destroyer, often focused on anti-submarine warfare, but sometimes general purpose.
- A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.
- A frigatebird (Fregata spp.).
Pluriel frigates
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Why, in the first place, his yacht is not a ship, but a bird, and he would beat any frigate three knots in every nine; and if he were to throw himself on the coast, why, is he not certain of finding friends everywhere?”
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