Here and there, sailing slowly along, are large barges with the graceful lateen sails that are seldom seen except upon the Mediterranean.
All about us are the green covered hills, forming a rare frame for the picture of the sun-lit lake, dotted here and there with a lateen sail, and the slowly drifting smoke of a pleasure steamer that skirts along the shores.
It was all more like Italy than anything in the Italian quarter of New York and Chicago--the very climate and surroundings, wine country close at hand, the bay for their lateen boats, helped them.
They had sometimes one, and sometimes two, lateen sails, composed of pieces of matting, the ropes being made of the coarse filaments of the plantain tree.
A few steps further and they came out on a sort of natural basin formed by the creek, in which floated a large boat of a peculiar construction, with very piratical-looking lateen sails.
The morrow came, and three dhows left the harbour of Kilwa, hoisted their lateen sails, and steered northwards.
A little midshipman, named Midgley, differed from both, and said it was a large dhow, for he could make out the top of its lateen sail.
It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare.
Mediterranean vessel with long prow and lateen sails.
Mediterranean vessel with lateen sail: a kind of long covered carriage [Fr.
At the same instant our great lateensail swelled heavily out, wavered, jerked the sheet taut, and collapsed again.
The men sprang at once like cats to their stations, and the immense lateen sail was trimmed over on the other tack with an amount of alacrity which showed how intense was their relief at finding somebody on board equal to the occasion.
A "lateener" is a vessel rigged with a lateen sail and yard.
Some lateen sails have also a boom on the lower side.
Then came another flare of smoke and flame, hurtling a second ball through the lateen sail above Mackintosh's head.
Then he turned to inspect the triangular lateen sail behind him, parted into shreds by the first Portuguese cannon salvo, its canvas now strewn among the mizzenmast shrouds.
Elkington was clinging to the lateen mast, winding a safety line about his waist and bellowing unintelligible instructions into the dark for hoisting the chests of silver bullion from the hold.
The Indian pilot stood against the banister, shaded by the lateen sail, calmly studying the galleons.
And then, land and the last lateen sails of Aden vanishing together, one stands out into the hot thundery monotonies of the Indian Ocean; into imprisonment in a blue horizon across whose Titan ring the engines seem to throb in vain.
She was too large for the lateen rig, so prevalent in the Mediterranean, except upon her mizzenmast, where it was no doubt employed.
The sail and rigging plan is likewise a Danish copy and shows the two-masted lateen rig employed.
Apparently the jibstays also could be slacked off so that the lateen yards would not have to be dipped under them.
Rigged with two lateen sails and two jibs, the ship sailed either end first.
Like the lateen sail, part of the balance lug hangs before the mast and serves the purpose of a jib.
It may be because of my art training that I feel so kindly toward this style of sail, or it may be from association in my mind of some of the happiest days of my life with a little black canoe rigged with lateen sails.
For instance: The Lateen Rig is very popular in some parts of the Old World, yet it has only few friends here.
At any rate, in spite of the undeniable fact that the lateen is unpopular, I never see a small boat rigged in this style without a feeling of pleasure.
I freely acknowledge that when the sails are lowered and you want to use your paddle the lateen sails are in your way.
When this jigger was abolished the sail retained its lateen shape, got on to the mainmast, and became what we may call a main crossjack, thereby rendering a square mainsail impossible.
When the gaff came in, the projecting corner of the lateen disappeared so as to make room for the sail hanging from this lower yard, and the yard took the name of the old lateen boom.
His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air.
After waiting a few minutes longer, the crew hoisted the lateen sail, and Yellow Handkerchief steered down toward the mouth of San Rafael Creek.
Its sweeps were shipped, its great lateen sails furled on the yards.
Dhahabîyehs and felûkas spreading their great lateen sails were tacking across the river, passing from one shore to the other, and recalling the shape of the mystic baris of the times of the Pharaohs.
One was evidently a native craft, a Dhow or Pattarmar, from her high stern, curiously-projecting bow, and lofty lateen sail.
These "galleys" must not be confounded with the lateen rigged vessels of that name in the south of Europe; being simply small, low, straight ships of light draught easily moved by oars or sweeps in calms.
They are very light, and the natives sail in them with their lateen sails made of palm-mats, with so much swiftness against the wind or with a side wind that it is a thing to marvel at.
These praus were furnished with lateen sails of palm mats and were as light as the wind; this is a kind of boat that sails with remarkable speed, either with the wind or at random.
When I looked I saw a pennant fluttering from the peak of the forward lateen yard--a red, white, and blue pennant, with a single great white star in a field of blue.
There can be no doubt that the lateen sail, which goes back at least to the early Egyptians, had the germ of a fore-and-after in it.
These canoes were navigated by one or twolateen sails.
Cook describes the sails used by the Polynesians of the Tonga archipelago as being lateen, extended to a lateen yard above and a boom at the foot.
There we enjoyed from a considerable distance our last few glimpses of those fairy waters, with many a white lateen sail resting upon them, like the weary wings of some exhausted sea-bird.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lateen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: galleon; junk; vessel; yacht
