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lateen-rigged
[ la-teen-rigd, luh- ]
adjective
- having lateen sails.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lateen-rigged1
Example Sentences
Ten large ships, fitted with heavy guns and all the munitions of war then known, with five lateen-rigged caravels, formed the fleet.
Native junks darted about saucily here and there, while queer yellow faces looked up at them from behind the mats and lateen-rigged sails.
The privateer was a fine, lateen-rigged vessel, carrying two large sails, and her decks as full of men as possible—we judge from seventy to eighty.
The relative position of the two parts of the brake reminds one of the mast and yard of a lateen-rigged boat.
The latter and the fore and main masts were square-rigged, and the mizzen was lateen-rigged.
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