Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient galley having five banks of oars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A galley having five benches or banks of oars.
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- noun history, nautical An ancient
Carthaginian orGreek galley having five banks of oars.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have many water-clocks, but half of them probably out of repair and broken, some sepulchral lamps, and an old copper model of a quinquereme.
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So when Verres decided to remove every work of art from the temple and precinct of Hera in Samos, he was able to persuade Dolabella to hire an extra ship-and to order the Chian admiral Charidemus, in command of a quinquereme, to escort the new governor of Cilicia's flotilla on the rest of its journey to Tarsus.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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So two thousand talents of silver were dug out of the carts and loaded aboard the beautiful gilded quinquereme with the purple and gold sail that had brought Pharnaces and Megadates to Scyllaeum.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Here I had my first sight of a quinquereme, as high as a two-floored house.
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
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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.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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Individuals of means, or groups of individuals, pledged each a quinquereme, fully equipped, for a new fleet, asking reimbursement from the government only in case of victory.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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Finally, in desperation, Rome set about the creation of a fleet, and the story is that a Carthaginian quinquereme that had been wrecked an the coast was taken as a model, and while the ships were building, rowers were trained in rowing machines set up an shore.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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The trireme expanded in later centuries to the quinquereme: upper works were added and a second mast, but in essentials it was the same type of war vessel that dominated the Mediterranean for three thousand years -- an oar driven craft that attempted to disable its enemy by ramming or breaking away the oars.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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The quinquereme was too frail to attempt a blockade or to patrol the sea lanes in all seasons.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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