(n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
(n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
(n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
(n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilbao is a great sea-port: is its new museum a ship in disguise, a spectral memory of the great caravels that carried gold back from the New World to enrich Spain half a millennium ago?
Lateen
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.