lateen-rigged

• “The single lateen-rigged mast was stepped solidly into the keep fore of the cabin.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “The two-masted, lateen-rigged ships of the unforgotten midland sea were still unknown to these Norse seafarers.”

  Fictionaut: His Disposition

• “In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “Fanshawe counted ninety-six craft, stretched from shore to shore: square-riggers, lateen-rigged gunboats, fast galleys.”

  Simon & Schuster: John Paul Jones

• “I could see, out beyond the wall of chained rafts, opened now in three places, a flotilla of sails, long and low, triangular, sloping, those of lateen-rigged galleys.”

  Renegades Of Gor

• “She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts.”

  Explorers Of Gor

• “She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour.”

  The Weird Of The White Wolf

• “It was a swift-sailing lateen-rigged felucca, one of those crafts that are common enough in Eastern waters, especially in the Levant.”

  Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

• “The vessels are schooners, lateen-rigged, from three to fourteen tons.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

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