Bucentaur (Bucen`taur) , the state galley, worked by oars and manned by 168 rowers, in which the Doge of Venice used to sail on the occasion of the annual ceremony of wedding anew the Adriatic Sea by sinking a ring in it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Buccleuch * Buceph`alus