| 单词 | jackass frigate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackass frigate jackass frigate n. Nautical (now historical) a (type of) small frigate or similar warship; esp. a small 28-gun warship of a class built for the Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th cent., having square-rigged sails and a single gun deck.Frequently depreciative, esp. in early use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > frigate (next class to ship of line) galley-frigate1600 frigate1630 caravel1707 jackass frigate1831 1831 Age 20 Feb. 59/1 Of what use are the jack-ass frigates, that can neither fight nor run away? 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiii. 189 ‘What do you mean by a jackass frigate?’ inquired I. ‘I mean one of your twenty-eight gun ships, so called, because there is as much difference between them and a real frigate, like the one we are sailing in, as there is between a donkey and a race-horse.’ 1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. i. 2 The Artémise is a kind of ‘Jackass-frigate’, an 18-gun corvette, teak-built in Bombay. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command ix. 239 Heavy frigate, Indiaman, and a ship-rigged sloop or maybe a jackass frigate, all wearing French colours. 2005 M. Adams Admiral Collingwood i. 48 There was nothing simple about sailing a square-rigged ship, even one as comparatively small as a jackass frigate. < as lemmas |
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