| 单词 | dromond |
| 释义 | dromond Hist. and arch.|ˈdrɒmənd, ˈdrʌmənd|
Also 4–5 dromon, dromoun, dromonde, drowmound, dromund, 5–6 dromounde.
[a. OF. dromon, dromont, AF. dromund, -unt, (in Cotgr. dromant), ad. late L. dromōn-em, a. Byz. Gr. δρόµων large vessel propelled by many oars, f. δρόµος racing, course.]
A very large mediæval ship; according to Jal, ‘a great vessel of the class of long ships’. Used both in war and commerce. In more ancient times it is said to have been ‘a ship with rowers, having a single sail’.
13..Guy W. (A.) 2802 A dromond he seye ariueing. 13..Coer de L. 2459 The drowmound was so hevy fraught, That unethe myght it saylen aught. 13..K. Alis. 90 How he scholde his fomen quelle..That comen by schip other dromouns. 1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 199 Whan at Hampton he made the grete dromons, Which passed other grete shippes of alle the comons. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxciv. 171 He and his companye robbed two dromondes [ed. 1520 dromedaryes] besyde sandwyche. 1557K. Arthur (Copland) v. iii, A great multytude of shyppes, galees, cogges and dromoundes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. 30 A mightie Argosey, called a Dromond. 1828Scott F.M. Perth viii, I have got the sternpost of a dromond brought up the river from Dundee. 1849J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 171 Dromonds huge deep-weighed with plenteousness. 1868Morris Earthly Par. i. Prol. 8 The great dromond swinging from the quay. |
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