Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The beak of an ancient war-ship.
- noun Same as
embolus .
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- noun A blood clot or swelling, particularly one that blocks an artery.
- noun archaic A battering-ram on a
warship . - noun archaic A
military formation, usually shaped like a wedge. - noun rare, archaic Anything wedge-shaped.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(The Medicean and Florentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hitherto reported.) 596 {eon embolon tes khores}.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Next, as we are classical scholars, instead of this rustic stern of the boat, meant only to run easily on a flat shore, we will give it an Attic [Greek: embolon] (_c_).
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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(We have no business, indeed, yet, to put an [Greek: embolon] on a boat of burden, but I hope some day to see all our ships of war loaded with bread and wine, instead of artillery.)
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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But lower down (line 8 from the bottom) Rostra is the proper translation of Plutarch's word ([Greek: epilabesthai tôn embolon] ἐπιλαβέσθαι τῶν ἐμβόλον) and it was the place from which Cato spoke, after he had got up.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Florentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hitherto reported.) [54] {eon embolon tes khores}.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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