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quinquereme, a. and n.|ˈkwɪnkwɪriːm|
[ad. L. quinquerēmis, f. quinque five + rēmus oar: cf. F. quinquérème (1530).]
A. adj. Of ancient ships: Having five banks of oars.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 716 Hardly any one had escaped, but a few Quinquereme Galleys. 1697[see quadrireme A]. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxii. X. 669 One among his newly-invented quinquereme vessels.
B. n. A ship having five banks of oars.
1553Brende Q. Curtius iv. 41 b, The firste Galley of the Macedons that came nere them was a quinquereme. 1600Holland Livy xlii. xlvii. 1143 Himselfe was sent back againe with certaine Quinqueremes. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. ii. 376 Quinqueremes, or galleys with five benches of oars. 1799[see quadrireme B]. 1840Arnold Hist. Rome II. 566 They had not a single quinquereme, the class of ships which may be called the line of battle ships of that period. 1865Athenæum No. 1949. 307/3 A Carthaginian quinquereme. |