frigatoon

plural frigatoons

1. historicalnauticalA Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

   If he would fit out and man a frigatoon for Constantinople, I would, I said, gladly make the voyage therein, the money being packed and treated as my baggage, but none the less faithfully delivered by me to Signor Mario Battista[…]

   1895, Walter Bloomfield, Holdenhurst Hall

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   "Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?" "For the three-masted frigatoon." "You are doubtless mistaken in her character!" "I cannot be, my lord. No honest trader in these waters ever had such a rig. She is a pirate, and, if she is anywhere near us, will be sure to give us a taste of her quality ere long."

   1839, J.H. Ingraham, Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea