Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, fast-sailing war-vessel; hence, a similar vessel of any kind. Also
dromedary .
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- noun historical, nautical a
Byzantine bireme , similar to thechelandion , but used primarily fornaval combat
Etymologies
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Examples
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As she was the kind of ship then called a "dromon" she might be best remembered as "the dauntless dromon."
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Melville was in the house at the time, and on entering the room the dying boy embraced him and passed away with the words of the Apostle on his lips -- [Greek: didaskale, ton dromon mou teteleka] -- 'Master, I have finished my course.'
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Ships of War, "round" and "long"; trireme; penteconter; liburna; galley; dromon; galleas; junk; Viking craft; galleon; two and three-deckers; steam; submarine; destroyer; battle cruiser; dreadnought
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The dromon was not the low galley of the later Middle Ages but a two-banked ship, probably quite as large as the Roman quinquereme, carrying a complement of about 300 men.
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The dromon had two masts, lateen rigged, and between thirty and forty oars to a side.
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This, indeed, they needed, for on that crowded dromon there was little chance of washing.
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Through the hot haze of a July morning a dromon, as certain merchant vessels of that time were called, might have been seen drifting before a light breeze into St. George's Bay at Beirut, on the coast of Syria.
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In due course they came to the inn again, having met no one whom they knew, except two pilgrims who had been their fellow-passengers on the dromon.
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Oh, from a man on the dromon who called here while I made ready your food, and told me a strange story that he had learned in England of a band sent by Salah-ed-din -- may his name be accursed!
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[34] [Symbol: Aleph] reads -- [Greek: all 'oudenos logon poioumai tên psychên timian emautô hôs teleiôsô ton dromon mou].
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