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# longship

«longship» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, narrow wooden ship with oars and a square sail…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a longship, longships)

### meaning for a pupil

A long, narrow wooden ship with oars and a square sail, used by the Vikings for raiding, trading and exploring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons Viking longships could sail across the sea and also up shallow rivers, so Vikings could raid places like Lindisfarne in 793. They often had a carved dragon head at the front. Phrases: «Viking longship».

### examples

- The Vikings sailed to Britain in longships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x1)
- A longship had a dragon's head carved at the front. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x2)
- Rowers sat on chests along the sides of the longship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x3)
- Longships could sail up shallow rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x4)
- We made a model longship in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x5)
- Some Vikings were buried in their longships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/#x6)

### note

One word. Countable.

### In the corpora

- [Viking longships were light and fast, with sails and oars, and could cross the sea and sail up shallow rivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «longship» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longship/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.