Lateen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 96 anagrams from letters in lateen (aeelnt).
1720-30; French (voile) latine Latin (sail)
It does not appear that the triangular or lateen sail, so prevalent afterwards among the Romans, was ever used by the Greeks.
Fusta—a sort of galley, very small and open, with lateen sails.
He was sitting disconsolate in the cockpit of the lateen Esmeralda.
A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor in the rude harbor.
A “lateener” is a vessel rigged with a lateen sail and yard.
It was after ten before his lateen sail flapped in the little cove.
All these canoes carry a lateen, or sprit-sail, which is made of a mat of grass or leaves, extremely well woven.
A bilander was a small two-master, with the mainsail of lateen form.
Like a rabbit seeking its burrow, the lateen dived fogwards.
Their sails are made of straw mats in the shape of a lateen sail.
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