lateen

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Masts and sails--lateen spars particularly--always get me by the throat and make me happy for a while.

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  1. adjective Being, relating to, or rigged with a triangular sail hung on a long yard that is attached at an angle to the top of a short mast.
  2. noun A lateen-rigged boat.
  3. noun A lateen sail.

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  • She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour.
  • Above one such rill a lateen-rigged sail jutted flaglike from a shattered wooden hull. —  J
  • Along the wall they hastened at a run, until they came to a small lateen-rigged vessel, secured to the farthest end of the mole, and with her one huge sail roughly furled round the yard. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • As the clickety-_clack_, clickety-_clack_, clickety-_clack of the wheels vibrated through my couch, I pondered on the ridiculous position of that cautious Eastern bank as to the Fleischmann Brothers' failure; then on the Lattimore & Great Western and Belt Line sale; and finally worked around through the Straits of Sunda, in a suspicious lateen-rigged craft manned by Malays and Portuguese. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • Look at it sailing along like a tiny lateen-rigged boat. —  Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French (voile) latine, lateen (sail), feminine of latin, Latin (from its use in the Mediterranean), from Old French; see Latin.

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  1. A ‘phonetic’ spelling of French latine (voile latine, literally ‘Latin sail,’ alluding to its use in the Mediterranean), feminine of latin, from L. Latinus, Latin: see Latin.
 

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