单词 |
octoreme |
释义 |
octoreme|ˈɒktəriːm| Also octireme. [f. L. octo eight + rēm-us oar.] An (ancient) ship with eight ranks of oars. (In quot. 1890 humorously for ‘eight-oared boat’.)
1799Charnock in Naval Chron. I. 132 Ancient galleys, called Triremes, Quadriremes, Quinquiremes and Octoremes. 1890Daily News 25 Jan. 5/2 There is a bad race between the Trial Eights, and this is how Thucydides would infallibly have described it: ‘And when the antagonistic octoremes appeared’ [etc.]. 1891Cent. Dict., Octireme. |

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