The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FRIGATE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1965.
Old Ironsides, for example crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FRIGATE | 100 % | 7 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
FRIGATE noun- An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
- A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
- A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
- A frigatebird.
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