Frigate vs Corsair - What's the difference?
frigate | corsair |
(nautical) An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
(nautical) A 19th c. type of warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
(nautical) A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
A privateer or pirate in general
* 1840 , (Charles Dickens), (Barnaby Rudge), [
The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
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As nouns the difference between frigate and corsair
is that frigate is an obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle while corsair is a French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo.frigate
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(en noun)Coordinate terms
* destroyer * corvette * sloop * ship of the line * third rate * second rate * first rate * stone frigateDerived terms
* frigatebird * stone frigatecorsair
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(en noun)Chapter 34.]
- "If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot -- and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a (sic) ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general -- patience! I will be famous yet."