lateen in a sentence
Examples
- The mainsail and jib rig is general, but a double-masted lateen rig has been found advantageous.
- A two-masted lateen rig was added by the orders of her first commander, Captain David Porter.
- Along the coast towns still promote the traditional practice of fishing by lateen sail boats for tourism and festivals.
- After 1500, the situation in the Indian Ocean dramatically changed, with nearly all vessels now being lateen rigged.
- The balancelle, a Mediterranean coasting and fishing boat of the 19th century, also used a single lateen sail.
- Lateen sails mounted this way were known as " leg-of-mutton " sails in English.
- It takes its origins from the Bodrum area, has one or two masts, a bowsprit and lateen sails.
- The forward mast carried a single square sail, the mizzen mast ( after mast ) carried a lateen sail.
- In the afternoon, while she was at anchor, she sighted three lateen-rigged feluccas coming towards her.
- Neither the attribution of the lateen to the Arabs nor its origin in the Indian Ocean can any longer be upheld: