Maritime

Esporão

  1. Ram, at water level or below, protruding from the bow of a warship to pierce the side of other ships. 
  2. The same as 'talhamar'.

Talhamar

  1. Ram, at water level or below, protruding from the bow of a warship to pierce the side of other ships. 
  2. The same as 'esporão'.

Comitre

  1. Officer in charge of the galley-slaves or convicted rowers in a galley.
  2. Bibl: Ignacio da Costa Quintella, Annaes da Marinha portugueza (Lisboa: Academia Real das Sciencias:1839), p. 8.

Chusma

  1. Team or crew of rowers in a galley.
  2. Bibl: Ignacio da Costa Quintella, Annaes da Marinha portugueza (Lisboa: Academia Real das Sciencias:1839), p. 8.

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