lateen sail


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lateen′ sail`


n.
a triangular sail set on a long sloping yard, used esp. on the Mediterranean Sea.
[1720–30]
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Noun1.lateen sail - a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterraneanlateen sail - a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean
lateen
fore-and-aft sail - any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
lateen-rig - the rig on a lateen-rigged sailing vessel
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lateen sail

n → Lateinsegel nt
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A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
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As Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomegue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor's eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.
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Arrived at Old Cairo, the camp-followers took up the donkeys and tumbled them bodily aboard a small boat with a lateen sail, and we followed and got under way.
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It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails! The craft was long and low.
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The New English Dictionary notes that the sense of the word "bark" "was taken from a French term meaning a 'small vessel with sails.'" (8) In this case, the term "vessel" implies at least one deck and the term "little ship" implies the standard rig of the 1600s--two masts square-rigged with a single lateen sail on the mizzen mast.
The reconstruction of the vessel Indeavour
For hundreds of years the lateen sail, the most simple of all rigs
Ode to simpler days: The recent Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta celebrated history and tradition in the way of the simple lateen sail
A Battle of Waterloo B Black Death C Gunpowder Plot D Great Fire of London QUESTION 12 - for 12 points: What shape is a lateen sail? A Triangular B Square C Oval D Oblong QUESTION 13 - for 13 points: Three of these UK Nobel laureates won the prize for physics.
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QUESTION 12 - for 12 points: What shape is a lateen sail? A Triangular B Square C Oval D Oblong A A precious stone B A person who is dearly loved C A unit of energy D A sword fight Politician Alex Salmond.
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A 125,000gns Selkirk half-brother to Lateen Sails is also likely to appear at next year's Tattersalls October Sale, in his case from Brendan Holland's Co Corkbased Grove Stud.
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Having finished a promising fifth on the same course's Classic Trial on his debut at three last April, Orange Touch then returned last of four behind Lateen Sails in the Glasgow Stakes at York the following month.
Racing: GOODWOOD 2.00 BBC1
Coral bet: 5-2 Bago, 11-4 Azamour, 3 Rakti, 13-2 Sulamani, 10 Warrsan, Kalaman, 12 Cacique, 20 Ikhtyar, Norse Dancer, 25 Troubadour, 33 Salselon, 40 Imperial Dancer, Lateen Sails.
Racing: RAKTI FEAR; Sulamani York value as ground turns soft

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