friggot

Updated: June 8, 2025

The word friggot or frigat, as it was often written, derives its origin from a class of long, sharp vessels used in the Mediterranean, and impelled either by sails or oars, which had a deck, the topside of which was higher than that of the galley. It in general had openings like port-holes, through which the oars passed.

William Henry Giles Kingston - How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves: Updated to 1900