Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large medieval sailing galley.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Hist. or Archaic In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.

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  • noun Alternative form of dromon.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman dromund, from Late Latin dromō, dromōn-, a kind of ship, from Late Greek dromōn, from Greek dromos, race.]

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Examples

  • The two queens (if I may call them so, of whom one had been and one hoped to be of that estate), Joan and Berengère, went in a great ship which they call a dromond, a heavy-timbered ship carrying a crowd of sail.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Craft danced on its blueness, everything from bumboats shaped like basins to a freighter under sail and a naval dromond with oars in parade-ground step.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Craft danced on its blueness, everything from bumboats shaped like basins to a freighter under sail and a naval dromond with oars in parade-ground step.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • And Foam Dancer is a small ship, not a dromond loaded to the gunnels with ivory and spices.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • And Foam Dancer is a small ship, not a dromond loaded to the gunnels with ivory and spices.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • The dromond, in war-time, was sometimes converted into a warship, by the addition of fighting-castles fore and aft.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • The roundship, dromond, or cargo boat, was often little more than two beams long, and therefore far too slow to compete with ships of the galley type.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels.

    Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

  • Look you, my son --- this Crusade, as you call your wild enterprise, is like a large dromond parting

    The Talisman 1894

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