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penteconters

n. (plural of penteconter English)

Usage examples of "penteconters".

There were a few of the traditional long, low penteconters, and he saw one that looked like a late-medieval Venetian galley, huge oars pulled by four men each and a brace of big guns pointing forward.

The penteconters of Byzantium had furrowed the seas here, and the caracks of Pisa.