felucca in English

noun
1
a small vessel propelled by oars or lateen sails or both, used on the Nile and formerly more widely in the Mediterranean region.
The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water.

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1. The sailors set the great lateen sails of the felucca, which Bellied out like things leaping into life.

2. 25 Further on down, near to the city,(www.Sentencedict.com) a single felucca was gliding gracefully in towards the bank.