The two queens (if I may call them so, of whom one had been and one hoped to be of that estate), Joan and Berengère, went in a great ship which they call a dromond, a heavy-timbered ship carrying a crowd of sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference
Craft danced on its blueness, everything from bumboats shaped like basins to a freighter under sail and a naval dromond with oars in parade-ground step. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
Look you, my son --- this Crusade, as you call your wild enterprise, is like a large dromond parting. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
The dromond, in war-time, was sometimes converted into a warship, by the addition of fighting-castles fore and aft. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
The roundship, dromond, or cargo boat, was often little more than two beams long, and therefore far too slow to compete with ships of the galley type. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference
Lackaday, go home, let Maudie tie a warm nightcap on thy head, get thee a warm breakfast and a cup of distilled waters, and thou wilt be in ease tomorrow to fight thy wooden dromond, or soldan, as thou call’st him, the only thing thou wilt ever lay downright blow upon.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
I mean a dromond — that is. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
You are a wag -- But I have got the stern post of a dromond brought up the river from Dundee. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference
Lackaday, go home, let Maudie tie a warm nightcap on thy head, get thee a warm breakfast and a cup of distilled waters, and thou wilt be in ease tomorrow to fight thy wooden dromond, or soldan, as thou call'st him, the only thing thou wilt ever lay downright blow upon. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference
Said he: "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. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
I mean a dromond -- that is, a large ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference
A dromond brought up the river from Dundee.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
In dromond and in catafract -- wet, wakeful, windward-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference
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