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Definition of Lateen-rigged
1. Adjective. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateen-rigged
Literary usage of Lateen-rigged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"A lateen-rigged Arab trading vessel used in the Red Sea. Bagley.
US torpedo-boat (1900). Displacement, 167 tons ; guns, ..."
2. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"It is a matter of prime importance in Avalanche, lateen rigged, ... The result
is obtained in the lateen-rigged boat by paying the gaff off to leeward. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"It was lateen-rigged, with a single square sail on the foremast, ... (2) A small
lateen-rigged fishing vessel of ten or fifteen tons used in Spain, ..."
4. Persons, Places and Things: Embracing a Series of Stories of Adventure (1877)
"These Arab boats, which are the most antique in construction of all lateen-rigged
craft, are "grab-built," with great beam and long overhanging prow and ..."
5. Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia by Herbert Warington Smyth (1906)
"... a small lateen-rigged yawl of the Mediterranean. parrel : a band of rope for
keeping the yard into the mast, often fitted with a number of bull's-eye ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Two of her masts had square sails, the mizen being lateen-rigged. The foremast
had a square foresail, the mainmast a mainsail and ..."
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