What is "feluccas"

Usage examples of "feluccas".

The feluccas are boats of great intrinsic beauty, crafted by the Waels of Wellas at Erdstone Pool.

Green Men who have poured out of their barges and feluccas and flimsy sailing ships from Ocean Tethys and the Valles Marineris Inland Sea and who stand witness here this day for reasons known only to themselves, and perhaps to their avatar Prospero or the unmet god called Setebos.

None travelled so swiftly as the light feluccas, stitching back and forth, triangular sails canted to catch the wind.

The river flowed stronger and our progress slowed, the feluccas needing to tack ever more often across the current, stitching our course upstream.

Those boats she could see now, those fisherwomen out on their feluccas beyond the white bands of breaking waves, their whole lives were dictated by these uncertainties, and the habits of the shoals of whiteback which came and went on the oceans, which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.

Almost all of the feluccas were drawn up on the far side of the roadway, safe from the madly bashing waves, but there was no sign of that bigger craft belonging to Kalal.

He whistled and sang loudly and waved to passers-by whilst he worked at repairing the feluccas for his living.

The feluccas of the Long Ocean are manned by the Sea Nationals, who assert sovereignty across the entire extent of the Long Ocean, and control all trade and transit routes.

Then it was that three small, fast, maneuverable feluccas bore down upon them, the bow-chasers firing long before they had achieved even maximum range.

Indeed, on my voyage to Sicily, the Genoan galleass on which Archbishop di Rezzi and I were traveling was attacked by three Moorish feluccas and was compelled by their ferocity to sink two of them.

Between the starships, tall junks and clippers tacked in or out of the harbor and both branches of the river, and among them feluccas darted, their sails like the fins of a shoal of sharks.

The feluccas fished the former, and the big oceanworthy junks trawled the latter.