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Definition of Lateener
1. a lateen [n -S] - See also: lateen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateener
Literary usage of Lateener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Naval War with France by Gardner Weld Allen (1909)
"At 10 AM, off Algesiras Point, were seriously attacked by a large lateener who
had on board more than a hundred men. He came so near our broadside as to ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"Browning's Waring found happiness in cruising about the Adriatic in a lateener,
selling ' fruit, tobacco, and cigars' to English ships on their way to ..."
3. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison (1921)
"After a running fight with a French frigate, a brush with a heavily armed lateener,
and a regular battle with another off Alge- ciras, she made Gibraltar in ..."
4. Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, in the Days of Oak and Hemp by Robert Charles Leslie (1890)
"... and not unlike a rudimentary form of the beak, or " flech," of a lateener.
The cut or shape of her jib, which was nearly an equilateral triangle, ..."
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