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knorr|nɔːr|
Also knarr, knörr.
[ad. ON. knörr ship, merchant ship.]
A mediæval type of ship of Northern Europe, having a single sail (see quots.).
1889P. B. Du Chaillu Viking Age II. xiii. 212 We find them [sc. trading ships] mentioned under their different names—viz., Knörr, Kugg, Byrding (ship of burden), Vistabyrding, [etc.]. 1932C. M. Smith Northmen of Adventure xiv. 320 The round ships went under a variety of names. The largest class was the knorr. 1967H. Harrison Technicolor Time Machine xi. 114 Where the dragon-prowed Viking ship was long and narrow, this knorr was wide and stood high out of the water—and was at least a hundred feet long. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. ii. 188 Captain Folgar..in 1932 took a replica of a 60-foot knörr across the Atlantic. 1971S. E. Morison European Discovery Amer., Northern Voys. iii. 35 The Norse discoverers of Greenland and Vinland did not use a long Viking ship... There is ample evidence that they used the knarr, a beamy type propelled principally by one big square sail made of a coarse woolen cloth called ‘wadmal’, rigged with an additional sprit to set well close-hauled. 1973Country Life 17 May 1373/2 A Knarr, the cargo ship in which the great [Viking] voyages to Greenland and North America were made. |