(UK, military, historical) A warship with a single gundeck that carried up to eighteen guns.
(UK, military, historical) A warship with a single gundeck that carried up to eighteen guns.
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(military, watercraft, chiefly, historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.
(watercraft) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 2028 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140200, and weighing 340550 tons burthen.
(UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.
(US, navy) , a type of warship.