Bireme

Word BIREME
Character 6
Hyphenation bi reme
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Definitions and meanings of "Bireme"

What do we mean by bireme?

An ancient galley equipped with two tiers of oars on each side. noun

An ancient galley having two banks or tiers of oars. noun

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars. noun

An ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. noun

(history) an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other.

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The word "bireme" in example sentences

To increase the driving force and the speed, they added a second and then a third bank of oars, thus producing the "bireme" and the "trireme." ❋ William Oliver Stevens (1916)

Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of bireme warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering Trojan Horse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

So that even now, when the hortator of the bireme struck the skin hide of the drum to set the measure for the oarsmen, Casca could feel a twinge seem to ripple over his back, for a slave master's lash, on the galley he had slaved on, had made its mark there. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

There they were loaded on a bireme, a twin-banked coastal ship that would take them to the port of Cenchrea. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

At nights, when the sea was quiet and the bireme rocked to and fro with the swells, he would often awake with a jerk, his body soaked in cold sweat as memories rushed on him in his sleep. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

The galley they were sailing on was a military bireme, twin-oared, a lot different from the trading ship that had brought him to the mines. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

Casca was on a bireme out of Antium when Yesuvius blew and smothered Herculaneum and Pompeii beneath tons of ash and lava. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

The creaking of the timbers brought him staggering to the upper deck of the bireme, where he emptied the remains of the previous night's revelry into the Mediterranean. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

From Crete, the bireme made a straight approach to Rhodes for a two-day stop during which Casca and the others were allowed to exercise themselves on deck (the crew used them to help load a cargo of skins and other items into the hold next to the slave section). ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

The ashes reached the bireme far out at sea and turned the ship into a filthy mess of wet ash and powdered pumice that invaded everything from the pores of their skins to the food they ate. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

White foam flashed along her sides, and Conan saw the twinkle of sunlight on dripping water from her double bank of oars - a bireme, with a high, curved prow carved of brass into the likeness of a dragon's head. ❋ De Camp, L. Sprague (1968)

Hast seen yet the charming Ionian girl who is to smite thy heart like the sharpened beak of a war bireme when it sends its prow into the soft pinewood sides of an enemy's ship? ❋ Richard Short (N/A)

The bireme and the trireme were adopted by the Greeks, apparently without alteration, save that at Salamis the Greek galleys were said to have been more strongly built and to have presented a lower freeboard than those of the Phœnicians. ❋ William Oliver Stevens (1916)

But, once discharged the dromond's hold, the bireme beached once more, ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

In this action a quinquereme was taken, and a bireme, with all the soldiers and mariners on board, besides three sunk, without any loss on our side. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Naval architecture had recently made great strides, first by the inventiveness of the Phœnicians, who introduced the bireme, and then by the skill of the Greeks, who, improving on the hint furnished them, constructed the trireme. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Finally, the principle of the bireme was adopted, and river-galleys were constructed of such a size that they had to be manned by thirty rowers, who sat in two tiers one above the other at the sides of the galley, while the centre part, which seems to have been decked, was occupied by eight or ten other persons. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

But it is not so easy to see how the oar of a common row-boat, or the uppermost tier of a bireme, obtained their purchase on the vessel, and were prevented from slipping along its side. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

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