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Definition of Lateens
1. lateen [n] - See also: lateen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateens
Literary usage of Lateens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll (1898)
"Columbus's " caravel " had four short masts, the forward one having a square
lug-sail and the three after masts lateens. It was very gradually, indeed, ..."
2. Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1899)
"SPANISH CRAFT costumes of the Knights of Malta ; the three huge lateens ...
Naturally sailors who all their lives have been accustomed to lateens can handle ..."
3. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"101 represents a Bombay yacht of the second half of the nineteenth century rigged
with a couple of lateens, and masts that rake forward at a considerable ..."
4. Broadland Sport by Nicholas Everitt (1902)
"The lateens were rigged very differently. A short foremast, stepped right in the
eyes of the boat with a rake for'ard, supported an enormous lateen foresail ..."
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