longship

[lawng-ship, long-]

noun

1. a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.

longship

/ ˈlɒŋˌʃɪp /

noun

1. a narrow open vessel with oars and a square sail, used esp by the Vikings during medieval times

Word History and Origins

Origin of longship¹

First recorded in 1560–70; long ¹ + ship ¹

Example Sentences

“Science helps us become better artists. It gives us more tools in our toolboxes,” says Kyle Welch, co-owner and winemaker at Longship Cellars in Richland, Washington.

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At Longship, he and other winemakers might experiment with blends for a month and sample a wine multiple times before bottling.

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With Unst's Viking heritage, we had always thought of the timespan from the longship to the spaceship.

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Funding will also go toward the development of a virtual reality model of a Viking Age longship by undergraduate researchers at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

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Pyramids, castles, palaces: symbols of power and status have taken many forms down the ages, and for the Vikings what really counted was the longship.

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