bireme

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Five police officers were among the 11 dead, said Chad's Minister of Territory and Public Security, Abderahim Bireme Hamid.

From Los Angeles Times

It was not many minutes before the little vessel had become a Phœnician bireme with a huge, brown mainsail hanging loosely on the mast, and barely visible oars churning the water on each side with hasty vigor.

From Project Gutenberg

A military boat called the "bireme" came into use in Greece about six or seven centuries before Christ.

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It is probable that the Greeks did not originate the bireme, but borrowed the idea from the Phœnicians or possibly from Egypt.

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In some of the vessels there are apertures like oar-ports, though no oars are shown in them, which raise a presumption that the invention of the bireme, the origin of which is uncertain, may with some probability be attributed to the Egyptians.

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