felucca

American  

[fuh-luhk-uh, -loo-kuh] / fəˈlʌk ə, -ˈlu kə /

noun

1. a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.

2. a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.

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felucca British  

/ fɛˈlʌkə /

noun

1. a narrow lateen-rigged vessel of the Mediterranean

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Etymology

Origin of felucca

1620–30; earlier falluca < Spanish faluca, earlier variant of falúa, perhaps < Catalan faluga < Arabic falūwah small cargo ship

Example Sentences

Accordingly, at Night he put out to Sea in his open Felucca, all which he spent five Leagues from Shore, with no other Company than one Captain and his Rowers.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Felucca sails, like giant wings emerging from the ground, curved towards him from the Nile.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

Felucca, fe-luk′a, n. a class of small merchant-vessels, used in the Mediterranean, with two masts, lateen sails, and often a rudder at each end.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

"Felucca, ahoy!" cried one, in English, from a boat that was close on the lugger's bow.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore