What is "dromond"

Usage examples of "dromond".

Each was a long, narrow wooden hull like an oceangoing dromond, or open peapod.

There is but the one channel and your dromonds could never negotiate it .

In the deeper waters rode prizes: cogs, carracks, and dromonds won in raid or war, too big to run ashore.

Conan still stood at the casement, staring down into the harbor at the purple and crimson and vermilion and scarlet sails of galleons and caracks and galleys and dromonds.

There is but the one channel and your dromonds could never negotiate it .

There is but the one channel and your dromonds could never negotiate it.

Among Scholars, serious questions arise as to Predestination and the Will of God, Who notes each detail of each life in a sort of divine Ledger, allotting Fortune bad and good, to each individually, even as He raiseth the storm at sea, lendeth the Weather-gage to the dark Dromonds of Piracy, provoketh the Mohawk against the Trader's Post.

The huge penteconter came beating into the gap hardly a spear's cast behind the dromond.

Hackworth unexpectedly fell asleep before the dromond had evenaway from her mooring mast, and had dreams about theimplements he had seen magnified on Dr.

The noises of the ship-the creak of the rigging, the uncertainty of the sails whenever the wind shifted, the protest of the waves as the dromond shouldered through them-sounded like pre-echoes of anger or grief.

And Foam Dancer is a small ship, not a dromond loaded to the gunnels with ivory and spices.

For a mad instant, Linden thought that Honninscrave and his crew must be attacking the underdecks with sledgehammers, trying to wreck the dromond from within, as if in that way they could make it valueless to the storm, not worth sinking.