quadragintireme

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noun

A vessel with 40 rows of oars.

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Meanings

nounquadragintireme (plural quadragintiremes)

plural quadragintiremes

  1. historicalnauticalA vessel with 40 rows of oars.

    As to the Quadragintiremes, or vessels usually described as having forty ranks or tiers of oars, we cannot reconcile the report to our understandings, except by supposing them nothing more than galleys fitted with as many oars in each rank.

    1799, The Naval Chronicle, volume 1, page 132
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