Did you mayhaps mean one of these? eidolon, embolden, emboli, embolic, embolus
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The beak of an ancient war-ship. It was made of metal, in various forms, and sharpened like the prow of a modern ram, so that it might pierce an enemy's vessel beneath the water-line.
- n. Same as embolus.
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Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἔμβολον (embolon, "wedge, plug") (Wiktionary)
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“(The Medicean and Florentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hitherto reported.) 596 {eon embolon tes khores}.”
“Next, as we are classical scholars, instead of this rustic stern of the boat, meant only to run easily on a flat shore, we will give it an Attic [Greek: embolon] (_c_).”
“(We have no business, indeed, yet, to put an [Greek: embolon] on a boat of burden, but I hope some day to see all our ships of war loaded with bread and wine, instead of artillery.)”
“But lower down (line 8 from the bottom) Rostra is the proper translation of Plutarch's word ([Greek: epilabesthai tôn embolon] ἐπιλαβέσθαι τῶν ἐμβόλον) and it was the place from which Cato spoke, after he had got up.”
“Florentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hitherto reported.) [54] {eon embolon tes khores}.”
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