Definition of "latteen" [latteen]

• See lateen.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The sheets were eased off, the long boom of the graceful sliding-gunter (a kind of latteen) sail, stretched far over the gun-wale of the boat, which slipped along easily and rapidly through the water, the rolling waves heaving up her stern, and sending her forward with a gentle impulse."
• "How long this would have lasted I do not know, but one morning when I woke and came to the mouth of the cave to look out, I saw that in the night a Chinese junk, with broad latteen sails, had dropped anchor in the bay below."
• "All hands were busily employed in altering the rig of the three prizes from latteen vessels to sloops, and preparing for a second attack."