Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Greek antiquity, a vessel of thirty oars.

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

  • noun (Gr. Antiq.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

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  • noun historical, Ancient Greece A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or thirty ranks of rowers.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • With these he set sail in a number of fishing-boats, with a triaconter or ship of war of thirty oars, sailing in company, and anchored off a certain cape which stretches towards Euboea.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

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