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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
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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