dromond
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dromond
1300–50; Middle English dromund < Anglo-French dromund, dromo ( u ) n < Late Latin dromō, stem dromōn- < Greek drómōn swift ship, derivative of drómos a running
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The Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels.
From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey
In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
Bauduin, embarked on a dromond in the Indian Sea, is wrecked in the territory of Baudas, and near a city called Falise, which stands on the River of Baudas.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
The dromond, in war-time, was sometimes converted into a warship, by the addition of fighting-castles fore and aft.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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