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Lateen

noun
1.
A triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean.  Synonym: lateen sail.



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"Lateen" Quotes from Famous Books



... vessel, with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, jumping over them, and ducking down as merry as could be. This little boat came towards the steamer as quick as ever she could jump; ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
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... in that river of strange craft. She had neither the raking bow nor the rising poop of the local mehala, but a tall incurving beak, not unlike those of certain Mesopotamian sculptures, with a windowed and curtained deck-house at the stern. Forward she carried a short mast. The lateen sail was furled, however, and the galley was propelled at a fairly good gait by seven pairs of long sweeps. They flashed none too rhythmically, it must be added, at the sun which had just risen above the Persian mountains. And although the slit sleeves of the fourteen oarsmen, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
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Words linked to "Lateen" :   lateen-rig, lateen-rigged, rigged, fore-and-aft sail


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