Crossword-Solution: DROMON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dromon | - | In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DROMON | anagram | ORMOND |
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| Galley | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DROMON (5)
But how did you chance to hear of them, O widowed hostess of a Syrian inn?” “I? Oh, from a man on the dromon who called here while I made ready your food, and told me a strange story that he had learned in England of a band sent by Salah-ed-din—may his name be accursed!—to capture a certain lady.
His name (given him arbitrarily perhaps by his master) is of a peculiar category, which at once brands him as a bondsman: Geta, Manes, Dromon, Sosias, Xanthias, Pyrrhias,—such names would be repudiated as an insult by a citizen.
Melville was in the house at the time, and on entering the room the dying boy embraced him and passed away with the words of the Apostle on his lips--[Greek: didaskale, ton dromon mou teteleka]--'Master, I have finished my course.' 'That bern gaed never out of his hart.' On the siege being raised, Melville left Poitiers for Geneva, footing it all the way in the company of a few fellow-students.
The word means "fast sailers" or "racers." The dromon was not the low galley of the later Middle Ages but a two-banked ship, probably quite as large as the Roman quinquereme, carrying a complement of about 300 men.
Exactly opposite this gate, on the ground-floor of the building at the left side of the court, was the small dwelling of Dromon, the _carcerarius_ or gaoler of the prison.