frigaten.
/ˈfrɪɡᵻt/, U.S. /ˈfrɪɡᵻt/ 1. A light and swift vessel, originally built for rowing, afterwards for sailing. Obsolete exc. poetic.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > others
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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. ii. 2 b With a frigat to accompany us and to bring backe newes from us.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 151 All which people were embarked in small ships and two frygattes [printed foygattes].
1599 J. Lok in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 111 And toward Sunne set, the castle sent a Fragatta vnto vs, to giue vs warning of three Foistes comming after vs.
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 8 Perceiving a Fregat a farre off, rowing towards vs.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 106 The other are Frigats fit to Row or Sail.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 171 He promis'd..to furnish him..with a frigat to carry him..to the port.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 30 Permit me..to guide Your fairy frigate o'er the tide.
2. Applied to a vessel of larger size.† a. A merchantman. Also galleon-frigate. Obsolete.figurative.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 He must cut out large docks..to unlade the foolish frigate of his unseasonable autorities.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > types of specific construction or rig
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1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 180 They sent one of the two Frigats last left with them for England.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 547 They..had at that time another Frigat of Mr Hasduncks.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6142/2 1/ 16 of the Craggs Frigate.
1800 Naval Chron. 2 237 Two more galleon frigates were expected.
1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 229 Among the merchant-men serving against the Armada..was a frigate.
b. A war-vessel. In the Royal Navy, formerly a vessel of the class next in size and equipment to ships of the line, carrying from 28 to 60 guns on the main deck and a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. As subsequently used, the term no longer denoted a distinct class of vessels, being often applied to ships of much larger size than those that were so designated early in the nineteenth century. Since 1943, a naval escort vessel, a large corvette.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > frigate (next class to ship of line)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > frigate as naval escort vessel
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1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 224 There are continuall fights with the Portugall Frigats.
1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 41 The packet-boat..a pretty frigate of six guns.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 264 Being with one of the king's frigates in the Baltic.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 43 Without a single ship of war, frigate or sloop, to encounter a powerful navy.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Donkey-frigate, those of 28 guns, frigate-built; that is, having guns protected by an upper deck, with guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 11 She has all the accommodation of a frigate with the handiness and draught of water of a corvette.
1955 Times 10 May 7/1 The Leopard, a multi-purpose frigate with a heavy anti-aircraft armament, has an extreme length of 340 ft. and a beam of 40 ft.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 88/1 Frigate... The name was reintroduced during the second world war for a new type of convoy-escort vessel.
3. A large swift-flying raptorial bird ( Fregata aquila or Tachypetes aquilus), found near land in the tropical and warmer temperate seas. Also frigate-bird, frigate-petrel.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > fregata aquila (frigate-bird)
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1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 75 The Frigate Bird. The Indians call it so, because of the Swiftness of its Flight.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 627 The sea-birds, called frigates..quit the air, and seek the shore.
1837 Mrs. Caulfeild Deluge 94 At his side The kingly eagle, frigat, pelican.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vi. 185 No one except Audubon has seen the frigate-bird..alight on the surface of the sea.
1895 Daily News 16 Sept. 6/2 The Frigate Petrel..a specimen was washed up dead on the shore of Walney Island in November 1890.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
frigate-almshouse n.
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a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 201 Have you not seen a charact lie A great cathedral in the sea, Under whose Babylonian walls A small thin frigot almshouse stalls?
frigate-fashion n.
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1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 18 Phineas Pett, inventor of the frigate-fashion of building.
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frigate-like adj.
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1676 London Gaz. No. 1077/4 A small Bark, called the Castle Frigat of Falmouth, burthen 25 to 30 Tun, built Frigat like.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4398/3 Captain Haddock..got Sight..of two Frigat-like Ships.
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frigate-bird n. (see sense 3.)
frigate-built adj. having ‘a descent of some steps from the quarter-deck and forecastle into the waist’ (Adm. Smyth).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > built like specific type of ship
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1676 London Gaz. No. 1130/4 Viva Oranga of St. Malo's, Burthen 50 Tuns..Frigat built.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 30 A small Frigate-built Vessel.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 75 A ship of more than usually heavy scantling, and with a variety of foreign timber judiciously distributed in all its parts, might have fairly claimed to be frigate-built.
frigate mackerel n. Auxis rochei or A. thazard, fishes of the family Scombridæ, found in warm seas.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > miscellaneous type of
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1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 306 It is not unusual in the Bermudas, where it is called the ‘Frigate Mackerel’, a name not inappropriate for adoption in this country [sc. the U.S.].
1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes I. 277 The only species of this genus is the frigate mackerel.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Apr. 20/4 The rare capture on the coast of Otago..of a fish known in Australia as the frigate mackerel.
1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 374/1 Frigate mackerels are generally small, seldom reaching a length of 2 feet.
frigate-petrel n. (see 3).
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