"Lateen sail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on board the junk they were hauling the boat in, shaking out the lateen sail and dragging up the anchor as though a hundred pair of hands were at work instead ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various
... the last century, in very old ships, there was no sail hung on this lower yard of the mizzenmast, it having been introduced only for setting the mizzen topsail; and instead of the gaff spanker we now have there was a huge lateen sail which extended some distance forward of the mast and ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various |
