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quadrireme, a. and n.|ˈkwɒdrɪriːm|
[ad. L. quadrirēm-is, f. quadri- quadri- + rēmus oar.]
A. adj. Of ancient ships: Having four banks of oars.
1600Holland Livy xxxvii. xxiii. 957 Now of the Rhodians there were 32 quadrireme Gallies and 4 other triremes besides. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. xiv. (1715) 134 Trireme, quadrireme, and quinquereme Gallies, which exceeded one another by a Bank of Oars. [Hence in Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xiii. (1807) 387.]
B. n. A vessel having four banks of oars.
a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 286 There were often sea fights..between the Triremes, and the Quadriremes. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1799Charnock in Naval Chron. I. 132 Ancient galleys, called Triremes, Quadriremes, Quinquiremes. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxii. (1856) X. 667 Dionysius or his naval architects now struck out the plan of building..quadriremes or quinqueremes, instead of triremes. |