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Quotation dates: 1643-1689
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Frig(g)ot, n. Also: friggt, -et, friegot. [e.m.E. friggot, -at(t, varr. of frigat (1585), etc.] A frigate. 1643 Acts VI. 18/2.
The company and equippage of the said … friggottis c1650 Spalding I. 239.
Of the Spanish schippis there were takin 7 galliouns, with a frigot, and 3 vther schippis c1650 Ib. 303.
The friegot … quiklie takis to sea 1679 Highland P. I. 317.
Wm Campbell, skiper of my Lords frigget 1689 Annandale Corr. 45.
Those of us who live in islands have alreadie … defyed the Prince of Orange his friggots
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