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n. A fast, lightly armed warship, smaller than a destroyer, often armed for antisubmarine operations.

n. An obsolete sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, usually armed with one tier of guns.

n. A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

n. In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

n. A wooden ship of war, flush-decked, frigate-rigged, and having only One tier of guns.

n. a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer

"The _Iroquois_ and her sisters, built in the fifties, were vessels of the kind to which I have applied the term corvette, then very common in all navies; cruisers only; scouts, or commerce-destroyers."

war vessel    warship    combat ship   

Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret   

corvettes    men-of-war    sloop    frigate    gunboat