lateness

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The same lateens serve for this double object, unbending the sails half way and hoisting them like yards by means of top ropes.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

No sooner was it light enough for them to fairly make us out, than they shifted their sails, substituting single-reefed lateens for the lugs, and taking in their storm-jib out of the way.

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry

The village was on an in-lying island, and its headmen must have sent word across to the mainland; for one morning three big two-masted junks with lateens of rice-matting dropped anchor off the beach.

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack

For example, they reef and furl their tall lateens from the peak, and have to send a man up the long tapering gaff to do it.

From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)