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Lateen   Listen
adjective
lateen  adj.  
1.
(Naut.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa; pertaining to a lateen sail. See below.
2.
Rigged with a triangular (lateen sail).
Synonyms: lateen-rigged.





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"Lateen" Quotes from Famous Books



... this lateen-rigged boat creeping down on our quarter; we will stand east till she runs down to us, and then we will run by her and challenge her." Accordingly ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... barren—grey limestone, with the scantiest over-growth of rosemary and myrtle. A more desolate spot can hardly be imagined. But now the morning breeze springs up behind; sails are hoisted, and the boatmen ship their oars. Under the albatross wings of our lateen sails we scud across the freshening waves. The precipice of Capri soars against the sky, and the Bay of Naples expands before us with those sweeping curves and azure amplitude that all the poets of the world have sung. Even thus the mariners of ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... was of the "square rig" of her time—when apparently no use was made of the "fore-and-aft" sails which have so wholly banished the former from all vessels of her size—goes without saying. She was too large for the lateen rig, so prevalent in the Mediterranean, except upon her mizzenmast, where it was no ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames
... queer little boats!" exclaimed Mabel, as they stood at the rail while the ship was weighing anchor and looked at the native sampans with their bright colors and lateen sails as they darted to and fro ...
— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick
... flutter all the great sisterhood of shallops, sloops, pinks, schooners, snows, the almost obsolete batteau and periagua, the gundelow with its picturesque lateen sail, and all the winged host that are now merely names in ...
— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery


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