1) Ancient galley 2) Ancient warship 3) Double-banked galley 4) Galley 5) Galley of yore 6) Hellenistic-era galley 7) Oared galley 8) Old galley 9) Old rowing vessel 10) Phoenician galley 11) Ship of ancient Greece 12) Two-tiered galley
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A bireme is an ancient oared warship (galley) with two decks of oars, probably invented by the Phoenicians. Long vessels built for military purposes had relatively high speed, meticulous construction, strength, and depending on the number of rows of oars, were called uniremes, biremes, triremes, quadriremes, etc. The name bireme comes from `bi-`.....
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rowed ship or galley with two banks of oars
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• (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
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(from the article `naval ship`) The bireme (a ship with two banks of oars), probably adopted from the Phoenicians, followed and became the leading warship of the 8th century . Greek ... ...vessel propelled primarily by oars. The Egyptians, Cretans, and other ancient peoples used sail-equipped galleys for both war and commerce. The ... ...
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Bi'reme noun [ Latin
biremis ;
bis twice +
remus oar: confer French
birème .] An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
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A Bireme was a Phoenician war galley. The Bireme was probably constructed of a hollowed-out tree trunk, about 27 metres long and propelled by a single square sail and about 30 pairs of oars. The Bireme carried archers and spearmen troops on an upper deck and the bow terminated in a spiked ram. Biremes were later adopted by the Greeks before being r...
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a galley having two banks or tiers of oars.
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