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  • noun Plural form of frigate.

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Examples

  • Al had brought up a cruiser and three WarCroc frigates from the Orc fleet and had executed a linked attack.

    Cold Wars 2010 wrap up « Third Point of Singularity 2010

  • It got six big patrol frigates from the Saint John Drydocks in the 1990s, and six more when New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna switched to support the Meech Lake Accord.

    National Defence: A Little Common Sense 2002

  • While a number of British war vessels were lying in Hampton Roads watching for certain French frigates which had taken refuge up

    Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

  • The European Union has also authorized a force of between five and seven frigates, which is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Aden early

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The frigates were the scouts, the cavalry, and, having found the enemy, they stayed with her and sent messages back down the long windy links of their chain.

    Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

  • Soon after we made the signal to call the frigates in ...

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

  • Soon after we made the signal to call the frigates in ...

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

  • July 23d, Nelson abandoned the attempt upon the fort, recalling the frigates; and, as the wind did not yet serve to approach the shore, he continued under sail during that day and the next.

    The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

  • July 23d, Nelson abandoned the attempt upon the fort, recalling the frigates; and, as the wind did not yet serve to approach the shore, he continued under sail during that day and the next.

    The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

  • As the project grew, and the amount likely to be obtained became manifest, the purpose to which it should be devoted was determined to be the building of a frigate of thirty-two guns; one of the well-recognized, but smaller, classes under which the vessels called frigates were subdivided.

    Admiral Farragut 1877

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