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Definition of Bireme
1. n. An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Definition of Bireme
1. Noun. (history nautical) an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bireme
1. an ancient galley [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bireme
Literary usage of Bireme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient and Modern Ships by George Charles Vincent Holmes (1907)
"This Greek bireme, with its shallow hull and lofty, open superstructure, ...
The large figures at the stern seem to point to the bireme of Fig. ..."
2. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"Now for the length of a bireme, having the same number of ... It should now be
clear that the rowers' benches could not, in a bireme, run from one side of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Egyptian«, must be ascribed the invention of the bireme, and consequently of the
system of banked ... cannot be much earlier than 700 Bc It is a bireme, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"They in all probability (if not the Egyptians) invented the bireme and trireme,
solving the problem by which increased oar- power and consequently speed ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1874)
"Nor is there much difference of opinion in regard to what was meant by a bireme.
It has been said, it is true, that a bireme derived her name from her oars ..."
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