Middle English Dictionary Entry
liburne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | liburne n. |
| Etymology | L Liburna |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of Roman warship, light and fast-sailing.
Associated quotations
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)112a : Lyburnus, þat beeþ Galeyes in Englische, were Ifounde þere the beste vesselles to werre with..þe skile why þat galeyes ben Icleped lyburnus is for in þe citee of lyburne þei were first Imade.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2652 : The namys of the shippis as for werre Myn auctour writeth not, save a liburne.