Crossword clues for felucca
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felucca \Fe*luc"ca\, n. [It. feluca (cf. Sp. faluca, Pg. falua), fr. Ar. fulk ship, or harr[=a]qah a sort of ship.] (Naut.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.
Note: Sometimes it is constructed so that the helm may be used at either end.
Wiktionary
n. A traditional wooden shallow draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
WordNet
n. a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean
Wikipedia
A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean including Malta, and particularly along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails.
They are usually able to board ten passengers and the crew consists of two or three people. Despite the availability of motorboats and ferries, feluccas are still in active use as a means of transport in Nile-adjacent cities like Aswan or Luxor. They are especially popular among tourists who can enjoy a quieter and calmer mood than motorboats have to offer.
Usage examples of "felucca".
The hill on the far side of the river with its rounded Fatimid chapel was almost hidden in a heat haze and the few feluccas she could see plying their trade on the broad stretch of water were drifting, sails slack, without a breath of wind.
Feluccas and gyassas, barges, steamers and gunboats crowded the anchorage.
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 that came and went on the oceans, and which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.
Unremarked among the other sparse river traffic, a tiny felucca used the last of the evening breeze to leave the Omdurman bank and slip downriver.
From the headmen of these villages they hired, for payment of beads, rolls of copper wire and other stores such as fishing line, rope and bronze nails, a motley flotilla of feluccas and outrigger fishing-dhows.
Calabria, a vassal born of mine, a certain Stefano Milano, the padrone of a Sorrentine felucca, now lying in the port.
An active man might go from the Marinella, at the foot of the Scaricatojo, or the place where the crew of the felucca had landed, to the Marina Grande of Sorrento in an hour.
I ordered my lieutenant to send plenty to eat and to drink to the men on board the felucca, to prepare a splendid supper, and to spare nothing, as I should leave the island at midnight.
My proposal was accepted with great joy, and the proveditore-generale placed a felucca at my disposal.
Clairmont brought us an excellent dinner, and we laughed incessantly during its progress, even at the astonishment of the abbe and Possano when they came to the quay and found the felucca had flown.
I only heard the following circumstance: Ascanio Pogomas, or Passano, had been released at the end of November, and had then been embarked on a felucca bound for Toulon.
Two men and a horse will suffice to transport the two casks on board the felucca which brought me hither.
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.