Associations to the word «Quinquereme»
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Wiktionary
QUINQUEREME, noun. (history) (nautical) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having three banks of oars, rowed by five oarsmen: two to an oar in each of the upper rows, and one to the lower oar: see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic-era_warships|Quinquereme].
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