·adj Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
The disposition of the decks of such merchant ships as have a descent of some steps from the quarter...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun Any small vessel on the water. II. Frigate ·noun Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean pr...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A well-rigged frigate; a well-dressed wench. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
In the Royal Navy, the next class vessel to a ship of the line; formerly a light nimble ship built f...
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Build>>. II. Built ·noun Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a shi...
A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-bu...
Those of 28 guns, frigate-built; that is, having guns protected by an upper deck, with guns on the q...
♦ Tachypetes aquila, a sea-bird generally seen in the tropics. It seems to live on the wing, is part...
A ship wherein the captain's wife interfered in the duty or regulations. ...
A large armed steamer commanded by a captain in the navy. ...
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. ...
·adj ·see Clinker-built. ...
·adj Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper e...
·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. ...
·adj Of lofty structure; tall. ...
·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...
·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. ...
·adj Built at, in, or by the sea. ...
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made. ...
A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, ...
Clinker, or overlapping edges. ...
See clincherI ...
Constructed of fir. ...
Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...