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lateen-rig

NOUN
  1. the rig on a lateen-rigged sailing vessel

How To Use lateen-rig In A Sentence

  • In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels. 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. Champlain's Dream
  • Before that is was a week's camel-trek through the Sahara or ten days on the dahabeeyah, the lateen-rigged Nile Galleys.
  • The two-masted, lateen-rigged ships of the unforgotten midland sea were still unknown to these Norse seafarers. His Disposition
  • She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour. The Weird Of The White Wolf
  • She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts. Explorers Of Gor
  • 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. Champlain's Dream
  • The single lateen-rigged mast was stepped solidly into the keep fore of the cabin. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • 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
  • 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. Champlain's Dream
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