dromond

[ drom-uhnd, druhm- ]

noun

1. a large, fast-sailing ship of the Middle Ages.

dromond

/ ˈdrʌm-; ˈdrɒmən; ˈdrʌm-; ˈdrɒmənd /

noun

1. a large swift sailing vessel of the 12th to 15th centuries

Word History and Origins

Origin of dromond¹

1300–50; Middle English dromund < Anglo-French dromund, dromo ( u ) n < Late Latin dromō, stem dromōn- < Greek drómōn swift ship, derivative of drómos a running

Word History and Origins

Origin of dromond¹

C13: from Anglo-French dromund, ultimately from Late Greek dromōn light swift ship, from dromos a running

Example Sentences

If these good fellows of the Lesser Crafts rise against their lords and send to me, then if they have gotten to them so much as the littlest of the city gates, of if it be but a dromond on the river, then will I go to them with all mine and leave house and lands behind, that we may battle it out side by side to live or die together.

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He accordingly stays during the winter, in a peace only broken by the slaying of another bersark bully, and partly passed with his brother Thorstein Dromond.

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He has plenty of opportunity: for Grettir, as usual, neither entirely by his own fault nor entirely without it, owing to his sulky temper and sour tongue, successively slays three brothers, being in the last instance saved only with the greatest difficulty by Thorfinn, his own half-brother Thorstein Dromond, and others, from the wrath of Swein, Jarl of the district.

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The dromond, in war-time, was sometimes converted into a warship, by the addition of fighting-castles fore and aft.

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In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley.

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