| 单词 |
thranite |
| 释义 |
thranite Gr. Antiq.|ˈθreɪnaɪt|
[ad. Gr. θρᾱνίτης, f. θρᾶνος bench.]
In the ancient trireme, a rower in one of the tiers, as generally supposed, the uppermost tier, which had the longest oars and hardest work; but the actual arrangement is disputed. Also attrib.
1842Brande Dict. Sc. etc., Thranite, the uppermost (or, according to some arrangements of the classical galley, the foremost) of the three classes of rowers in an Athenian trireme. 1869‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xxx, Look at that tall, sloping-shouldered, brown-bearded thranite. 1894Athenæum 29 Sept. 426/3 If..the oarsmen sat in a rectangular gallery..it would seem to be impossible to have more oarsmen on the thranite bank than on the other banks. 1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 38 The thranite now and the thalamite are [steam] pressures low and high.
Hence thraˈnitic a., of or pertaining to the thranites.
1886Warre in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 807 Supernumerary oars..probably slightly exceeding the thranitic oars in length. Ibid., About the level of the thranitic benches. |
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