dromond
noun
a large, fast-sailing ship of the Middle Ages.
dromon
-
a variation of
dromond.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
This, indeed, they needed, for on that crowded dromon there was little chance of washing.
From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard
The dromon had two masts, lateen rigged, and between thirty and forty oars to a side.
From A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens
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
In due course they came to the inn again, having met no one whom they knew, except two pilgrims who had been their fellow-passengers on the dromon.
From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard
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 William Oliver Stevens
