a. [WELL adv. 32.] Used to render Homer’s ἐῡσσελμος, epithet of a ship.
1848. Buckley, Iliad, II. 33. Let him lay hands upon his well-benched black ship.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, VII. 522. From their well-benched ships The Achaians also issued.
1887. Morris, Odyss., II. 414. They brought forth all and laid it within the well-benched keel.
