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These user-created lists contain the word ‘hen frigate’.
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Whaleworthy & Piratical Words
A list of favorite nautical words to be sprinkled liberally throughout speech for piratical or Melvillian effect.
batten down, back and fill, beamy, baulking, beckets, bilge, bold shore, boomjumper, breaker, larboard, abaft, ash breeze and 156 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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for the ones that roll off the tongue and reverberate in my mind
gazette, meridem, ante, mustard, fabricate, china, ceramic, kitties, strapper, droog, horrorshow, milk and 88 more...
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madmouth whereon they give pecking orders? oh ho ho
*shame* May 11, 2009
chained_bear Also, at least later in time, a ship captained by a woman: Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea, by Joan Druett. (A book I tried to read once without success.)
Sep 8, 2008
bilby "... a sea phrase, originally applied to a ship, the captain of which had his wife on board, supposed to command him."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 8, 2008