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Meanings of lateen in English

Portuguese
latinsegel
Spanish
vela latina
Catalan
aparell llatí
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Boomless triangular sail used as both main and head sail.

        latinsegel

        Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.

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              1
              So the lateen sail was hoisted on the mast of the pirogue.
              Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
              2
              I can see the tops of her lateen sails above the mist.
              The Three Midshipmen
              3
              Three basins of pewter, five candlesticks, one ewer of lateen, one chafing
              The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
              4
              A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor in the rude harbor.
              The Adventures of Kathlyn
              5
              We need commanders of galleys who know how to manage the lateen sail.
              The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 / 1576-1582 ...
              6
              As alternative, there was the tartane, a sailing vessel with a lateen sail.
              Travels through France and Italy
              7
              Or for the return of the whale-boats, with their beautiful lateen-sails?
              In the Footprints of the Padres
              8
              A war-galley, lateen-rigged, the sail reefed now in the dead air.
              Return of the Crimson Guard
              9
              Their sails are made of straw mats in the shape of a lateen sail.
              John Rutherford, the White Chief: A Story of Adventure in New Ze...
              10
              The larger number had lateen sails and long tapering yards.
              Paddy Finn
              11
              When night had fallen we hoisted our lateen again and worked up towards them.
              Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
              12
              The vessels are schooners, lateen-rigged, from three to fourteen tons.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
              13
              Henry's pinnaces still had lateen sails copied from Italian models.
              Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
              14
              Two of the crew pushed off with poles while others set the single lateen-rigged sail.
              Orb Sceptre Throne
              15
              Look at these two native craft; they have both let their lateen sails run down.
              At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
              16
              On the third was a three cornered lateen sail.
              Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
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