lateener

Don't take a larger craft than you can handle, and, above all, don't take a lateener; they're fine craft when they have

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

Finding that we were as yet out of range, the lateener once more kept away upon her former course, evidently recognising the possibility that, if she did not, we might still slip past her.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

Shortly after leaving our anchorage we passed close to leeward of a long rakish-looking lateener, on board which, as ill-luck would have it, an anchor-watch was being kept.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886