trireme
IPA: trˈaɪrim
noun
- (history, nautical, archaic) A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.
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Examples of "trireme" in Sentences
- So he departed just with his own trireme.
- Only one general per trireme may be on board.
- As for the trireme, I agree it must be included.
- The travertine stone gives a distinctive trireme shape.
- If need a trireme, you need someone to build it for you.
- Construction of the trireme differed from modern practice.
- The word trireme comes from three and "remus," meaning oar.
- For him a trireme is a most marvelous and magnificent sight.
- The ram of the trireme was crucial, especially for the Athenians.
- They invented the best warship of the ancient world, the trireme.
- However, since it is a trireme, it has no powerplant and armour to speak of.
- The earlier triremes were supplanted by polyremes in the Hellenistic navies.
- First, a trireme from the Greek island of Samothrace, fighting for Persia, rammed an Athenian trireme.
- In fact, the name trireme was used loosely for all ships of war whether they had two banks of oars or three.
- A New York-based non-profit is trying to restore a full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor.
- The nominal, and sometimes actual, commander of the trireme is her trierarch; but obviously a cultivated old gentleman like Eustathius is no man to manage the ship in a sea fight.
- At the time of the Persian war the trireme was the standard type of warship, as it had been for the hundred years before, and continued to be during the hundred years that followed.
- Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson A group of New Yorkers is trying to restore a full-scale model of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor on July 4 next year.
- For the countrymen of Phormio had now reverted to the primitive conditions of naval warfare, in which the trireme was a mere vehicle for carrying troops, and not, as in the days of that great captain, the chief weapon of offence.