An Old English or Norse ship of war.
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释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > long ship (8) chiulea800 An Old English or Norse ship of war. longshipeOE Chiefly historical. In early use: a warship, esp. a galley. In later use spec.: a long, narrow, double-ended ship with a shallow draught, propelled… keel1605 Used to render Old English céol in the passage of the Anglo-Saxon Chron. relating to the first coming of the Angles to Britain. (Cf. chiule, n., cyule… cyul1610 Modern literary adaptations of cyula, latinized form in Gildas and Nennius of Old English céol, ciol:—ciul, keel, n.2, boat, sailing vessel. Cf. also… viking ship1847 General attributive, as viking age, viking expedition, viking invader, viking line, viking ship, viking vessel. drake1862 A beaked galley, or ship of war of the Vikings. (Cf. ON dreki.) dragon boat1895 A Viking ship of war with a beaked prow; = drake, n.1 5. longboat1928 A long, narrow, double-ended ship of a type associated particularly with the Vikings. Cf. longship, n. 1. |
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