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Words related to lateen

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  • block mast

    a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.

  • bonaventure

    Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.

  • brail

    one of several lines fastened to the leech of a fore-and-aft sail to aid in furling it

  • fore-and-aft sail

    any of various sails, as jib-headed sails, gaff sails, lugsails, lateen sails, spritsails, staysails, and jibs, that do not set on yards and whose normal position, when not trimmed, is in a fore-and-aft direction amidships.

  • lateen sail

    a triangular sail set on a long sloping yard, used especially on the Mediterranean Sea.

  • lateen-rigged

    having lateen sails.
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