She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
The vessels are schooners, lateen-rigged, from three to fourteen tons. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
The single lateen-rigged mast was stepped solidly into the keep fore of the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Roll] Reference
The two-masted, lateen-rigged ships of the unforgotten midland sea were still unknown to these Norse seafarers. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
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
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. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
They are lateen-rigged with mat sails, are fast sailers, hold a good wind, and have a very pretty appearance when entering the harbour in fleets of fifteen or twenty sail. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
He was in the midst of his exclamation when the lateen-rigged schooner, as if disdaining further concealment, hoisted the dread black pirate flag; and the serang, in response to the signal, gave a shrill whistle, at the same time drawing his crease. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
Look at it sailing along like a tiny lateen-rigged boat. From Wordnik.com. [Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy] Reference
Then drew a little and loafed a good deal on the Bundar watching the lateen-rigged boats. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
The next morning land was seen ahead, and soon afterwards the frigate came up with a small lateen-rigged craft standing the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference
Some possessed only lateen-rigged craft, or open boats, but others owned fine large vessels, ships and brigs, strongly armed and manned. From Wordnik.com. [Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor] Reference
The real Nina, like the Pinta - a name that means "painted" - was a caravel, 30 yards long, five wide, and fitted with slanted, lateen-rigged sails. From Wordnik.com. [Payson Roundup stories] Reference
"Here is this lateen-rigged boat creeping down on our quarter; we will stand east till she runs down to us, and then we will run by her and challenge her.". From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
Soon after daylight they espied a long, low, lateen-rigged craft stealing along close in with the land -- her white canvas dimly seen through the morning mist. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Midshipmen] Reference
Although at times a mere blank speck on the gray waste of foam, a closer scrutiny showed it to be one of those lateen-rigged Italian fishing boats that so often flecked the distant bay. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess] Reference
Presently a lateen-rigged craft, a pilot vessel, came sweeping out from behind the high, threatening rocks, on the summit of which the massive fortifications guarding the entrance of the port were now discernible. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
He was supposed by some speedily to have taken to his old courses, and several merchantmen reported that they had been chased by a suspicious-looking lateen-rigged craft, on their passage between Gibraltar and Malta. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference
But he did not get his race; for, somewhat to his surprise, the lateen-rigged boat, instead of holding her course, which was about south-southwest, bore up directly and stood east, keeping about half a mile to windward of Talboys. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
Lance Lee, founder of the Apprenticeshop, was on-hand to explain the joys of working with wood, and his boat-building projects, including a smaller version of Tremolino, a 19th Century lateen-rigged Mediterranean workboat used by Joseph Conrad. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
A lateen-rigged sail jutted flaglike from a shattered wooden hull. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
"martingane" -- heavy, sea-going, lateen-rigged vessels, bringing cargoes of oranges and lemons to the Roman market. From Wordnik.com. [Saracinesca] Reference
Our feluccas with their lateen-rigged sails tacked back and forth across the sluggish waters, the sailors calling merrily to one another in Jeb’ez. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
“It’s a two-masted, lateen-rigged sailing ship,” said Mahnmut, whose training for the black underseas of Europa had included everything available in download about sailing the liquid seas of Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The LGM had furled the felucca’s sails and were moving ahead by oars alone — thirty of the little green men rowed, fifteen on a side, seemingly indefatigable — whenever the wind didn’t move the two-masted, lateen-rigged sailing ship. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
'She's lateen-rigged.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
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