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trireme, n. and a.|ˈtraɪriːm|
Also 7 tryreme.
[ad. L. trirēmis, f. tri- three + rēmus oar; cf. F. trirème (c 1352 in Godef. Compl.).]
A. n. An ancient galley (originally Greek, afterwards also Roman) with three ranks of oars one above another, used chiefly as a ship of war.
1601Holland Pliny vii. lvi. I. 190 Aminocles the Corinthian built the first Trireme with three rowes of ores to a side. 1656Blount Glossogr., Trireme (trirēmis), a Galley wherein every oare had three men to it, or a Galley that hath three oares on every side. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 118 They having then no such ships as we have now, their byremes and tryremes being but pittiful boats. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. 185 In the triremes, or vessels of three banks of oars, there was always a tibicen, or flute-player. 1868Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 7) 262/1 Triremes..were..divided into two classes: the one consisting of real men-of-war,..and the other of transports.
B. adj. Having three ranks of oars.
1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. xiv. (1715) 124 Trireme, quadrireme, and quinquereme Gallies, which exceeded one another by a Bank of Oars. 1839Thirlwall Greece VII. lvi. 165 A fleet was to be equipped of forty trireme galleys. |