lateen-rigged

How to use lateen-rigged in a sentence

• Possibly a lateen-rigged, sharper-bowed boat would even now be found to be a very fast and handy type for our rivers.

  Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.

• The relative position of the two parts of the brake reminds one of the mast and yard of a lateen-rigged boat.

  Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll

• Two of her masts had square sails, the mizzen being lateen-rigged.

  Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia | Various

• lateen-rigged feluccas, with white sails set, are wafted to and fro by the gentle breeze.

  Glories of Spain | Charles W. Wood

• Then drew a little and loafed a good deal on the Bundar watching the lateen-rigged boats.

  From Edinburgh to India & Burmah | William G. Burn Murdoch