frigate

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Again the men sprang round with the capstan bars; the frigate was afloat.

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  1. noun A warship, usually of 4,000 to 9,000 displacement tons, that is larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser, used primarily for escort duty.
  2. noun A high-speed, medium-sized sailing war vessel of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
  3. noun Archaic A fast, light vessel, such as a sailboat.

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  1. French frégate, from Italian fregata.

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  1. Formerly also frigat, frigot; = Dutch fregat = German fregatte = Danish fregat= Swedish fregatt, from Old French fregate, F. frégate, from Italian fregata, dial. fragata = Spanish Portuguese fragata, a frigate; perhaps, as Diezsupposes, for *fargata, an assumed contr. form of Latin fubricata, feminine past participle of fabricare, build, construct, whence fabricate: cf. English forge(French forge, Spanish Portuguese forja, etc.), from the same source. So F. bátiment, a building, also a vessel.
 

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