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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A galley with four banks of oars or rowers, mentioned as in use occasionally among the ancient Greeks and Romans.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Antiq.) A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

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  • noun history, nautical a galley with four banks of oars

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