Dragonship
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A type of Viking longship decorated with a carved dragon or serpent head on the prow.
"Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs."
- 2 A term of address for a dragon.
"But the dragon was not to be persuaded, he shook his head, and said — "No." "But your dragonship shall and must," said the little Princess, stamping her foot impatiently upon the ground, as if she wished the great dragon himself were under her feet."
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More examples"Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs."
Etymology
From dragon + ship; calque of Old Norse drekaskip, from dreki (“dragon”) + skip (“ship”).
From dragon + -ship.
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