Word Meanings - THRANITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

• Threepenny
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• THREEDECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• THREEVALVED
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• THREEFLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• THREENERVED
  Having three nerves. Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.

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