Usually means: Ancient ship with five rowers.
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  3. quinquereme: Collins English Dictionary
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  9. quinquereme: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  11. quinquereme: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (quinquereme)

noun:  (history) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having three banks of oars, rowed by five oarsmen: two to an oar in each of the upper rows, and one to the lower oar.

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