quadrireme

American  

[kwod-ruh-reem] / ˈkwɒd rəˌrim /

noun

1. (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.

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Etymology

Origin of quadrireme

1590–1600; < Latin quadrirēmis, equivalent to quadri- quadri- + -rēmis (derivative of rēmus oar)

Example Sentences

Quadrireme, kwod′ri-rēm, n. a galley with four benches of oars.

From Project Gutenberg

The night that hung over the sea was windless and blissfully silver-pure after the glowing splendour of the day; and the great quadrireme glided evenly and softly, as though upon a lake, under a wide firmament of stars.

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“Yes, uncle,” said Lucius, with a smile, “Caleb did suggest that we should leave the barge at Philæ, where we shall soon be arriving, and go through Ethiopia with carts, camels, elephants and tents, go hunting on elephants and ostriches and travel over Napata and Meroe, through forest and wilderness, to Cape Dire and the pillars of Sesostris, where we shall find the quadrireme waiting for the homeward journey.”

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That is why I would propose that the thalamegus take you from Apollonopolis Magna, by the canal, to Berenice, on the Bay of Acathantus, in the Arabian Gulf.1 At Berenice you will meet the quadrireme, which has gone by Pelusium and the Nechao Canal2 and is ascending the Arabian Gulf to fetch us at the pillars of Sesostris.

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He was surprised that the quadrireme, with Uncle Catullus on board, had not arrived from the Gulf of Acathantus, nay, was not even in sight.

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