dromon
- a variation of dromond.
Example Sentences
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The dromon had two masts, lateen rigged, and between thirty and forty oars to a side.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
It required the united force of the king’s galleys, and an obstinate fight, to capture the dromon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
This, indeed, they needed, for on that crowded dromon there was little chance of washing.
From The Brethren by Haggard, Henry Rider
As she was the kind of ship then called a "dromon" she might be best remembered as "the dauntless dromon."
From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by Wood, William Charles Henry
The dromon was not the low galley of the later Middle Ages but a two-banked ship, probably quite as large as the Roman quinquereme, carrying a complement of about 300 men.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
