snekke
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snekke (plural snekkes)
- A Viking fighting vessel smaller than a longship
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 6, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 125:
- They were excellent, new snekrs, nearly eighty feet long each; with double banks for twelve oars a side in the waist, which was open, save a fighting gangway along the sides; with high poop and forecastle decks; and with one large sail apiece.