It was rigged, as all the boats on the Lake of Geneva are, with what are called lateen sails. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Geneva] Reference
Large as sail that's called lateen. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893] Reference
So the lateen sail was hoisted on the mast of the pirogue. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
They were each provided with three masts, rigged with lateen-sails. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
We situated ourselves about the vessel as he raised the lateen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
I could see the lateen sails on Ulafi's ship loosened on their yards. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
The vessels are schooners, lateen-rigged, from three to fourteen tons. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
As alternative, there was the tartane, a sailing vessel with a lateen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Roll] Reference
The rigging consisted of square and lateen sails, with a sail area of 2,757 square feet. From Wordnik.com. [Beantown Rendezvous] Reference
And now crossing the moonlight track, westward bound, glides a lateen sail like a colossal swan. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
There was a red cross of St. George to be painted on the lateen sail, perhaps with a gold border. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
The boats, with their sharp bows, preposterous sterns, and lateen sails, might have belonged to the. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Far out on the water a shape could be seen, a hint of triangularity speaking of Foam Dancer's lateen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
The white crow found them while they were trying to work out the mechanics of raising the boat's lateen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
The captain hopped onto the rail and walked along it until he could see past the limp triangle of the lateen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
With the evening breeze in the lateen sail we were whisked across the dark waters to the stone jetty below the temple. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Its swooping teak hull bobbed gently on the waves, lateen sails billowing in the afternoon's warm, moist breeze. next ». From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes] Reference
The craft is propelled by graceful crescent-shaped lateen sails of pandanus matting and steered by sweeps from the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Somalis, seeing this, triced up their lateen sails, turning round like rats driven up into a corner and facing us, at bay. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
She had four masts, of which two were fitted with square and two with lateen sails, and her crew consisted of sixty-six men. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
In the distance was the little landlocked haven, with a brig and some small lateen-sailed vessels moored alongside the Marino. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
Unlike Nyarran auxiliary craft, round coracles sculled by a single person, these were narrow, with outriggers and lateen sails. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
A few strokes shoved the boat from under the lee of the island; the oars were shipped, and the lateen sail run up by all hands. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Fewer than twenty paces in length, she was rigged with a single lateen sail and pierced for fifteen oars a side in single banks. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
It was a swift-sailing lateen-rigged felucca, one of those crafts that are common enough in Eastern waters, especially in the Levant. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
The snow was a bark with a lateen mizzen, or rather a brig with the "driver," a lateen one, on a jigger mast, just a little abaft the mainmast. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
Carrying with them a favourable breeze from the south-east, the galleys spread their huge lateen sails, and the straining rowers had rest awhile. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
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