Definition of Corvet

1. n. A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

Definition of Corvet

1. corvette [n -S] - See also: corvette

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corvet

corundums
coruscant
coruscate
coruscated
coruscates
coruscating
coruscatingly
coruscation
coruscations
corvee
corvees
corven
corves
corvesor
corvesors
corvet (current term)
corveted
corvets
corvette
corvetted
corvettes
corvetto
corvettos
corvid
corvids
corvina
corvinas
corvine
corvine bird
corvorant

Literary usage of Corvet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1829)
"I have still my doubts on this point; but in either case corvet was a manifest ... I had endeavoured to dissuade corvet from his design, but when I saw that ..."

2. The Compleat Gamester: In Three Parts by Richard Seymour (1754)
"... to corvet, that without any Helps, at any Time and Place, you may make him corvet at ... corvet, only rit is done forward, gaining Ground in the Salt, ..."

3. Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police by Eugène François Vidocq (1853)
"I have still my doubts on this point; but in either case corvet was a manifest rogue. By his own confession, his wife and he committed robberies. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"... t>r short gallop ; the demy-air, or a very slow canter ; the corvet, performed by raising the forehand first and as the forelegs touched the ground, ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... that the armistice should be concluded, a Danish squadron, consisting of the frigates Niels Juel and Jutland and of the corvet Heimdal had sustained an ..."

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