lateener
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editlateener (plural lateeners)
- A ship with a lateen rig.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 282:
- Nearby […] lay a curious vessel which it seemed the Being had arrived in. Not the usual lateener, in fact appearing to have neither sails, masts, nor oars.