Clues for the word "FRIGATE"
We've had 36 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 46 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 20, 2026.
Definition of frigate
- n. - Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
- n. - Any small vessel on the water.
Referring Clues
- The U.S.S. Constitution, notably
- Naval vessel equipped for combat
- Medium-sized warship
- *Patriot Navy vessel
- Old warship
- Old war ship
- Old naval vessel
- Warship
- Long-winged seafowl or bird
- War vessel
- Aircraft carrier escort
- Hips that can move quickly
- Old Ironsides, e.g.
- Grief at destruction of warship
- Vessel that opens late in the week?
- Entrance used only one day a week, to the vessel?
- Ship's sails etc split a lot
- Equipment in what must be a warship
- Fire off the gun in the boat
- Warship - seabird
- Day to gain entrance to ship
- Vessel to fix in future
- Warship a short distance east, protecting Baltic port
- The USS Constitution, e.g.
- Gun fire explodes round the ship
- Naval escort member
- Naval escort ship
- Ship sails into misfortune
- Get fair wind in vessel
- USS Constitution, notably
- Worried after the soldier climbs aboard the ship
- Warship type
- Stupidly fire a gun inside the vessel
- Entrance used only one day a week, to the vessel?
- Dickinson's "There Is No ___ Like a Book"
- Ship
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - November 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 31, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 09, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 11, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 21, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 14, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - January 16, 2018
- Netword - September 24, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 09, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - March 04, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2016
- New York Times - September 15, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - July 15, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2015
- And in 16 more crossword puzzles...