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Lateen-rigged   Listen
Lateen-rigged

adjective
1.
Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.  Synonym: lateen.





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"Lateen-rigged" Quotes from Famous Books



... side of 1812 were seas unvexed by the privateer and the freebooter. The lateen-rigged corsairs had been banished from their lairs in the harbors of Algiers, and ships needed to show no broadsides of cannon in the Atlantic trade. For a time they carried the old armament among the lawless islands of the Orient and off Spanish-American ...
— The Old Merchant Marine - A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, Volume 36 in - the Chronicles Of America Series • Ralph D. Paine
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... A Portuguese despatch boat, lateen-rigged, formerly in use; it had square sails only on the fore-mast, ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
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