felucca

IPA: fɪɫˈʌkʌ

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.

Examples of "felucca" in Sentences

I called the felucca ze Ving-and-Ving; and I called myself le Capitaine
In the Sudan, even traveling up the Nile on a felucca was an adventure.
We call a felucca, a felucca; a bombarda, a bombarda; a polacre, a polacre; and a lugger, a lugger.
The felucca has been the most popular vessel on the Nile for centuries and is still widely used today.
One thing that had inclined Ja particularly to the felucca was the fact that it included oars in its equip-ment.
April, 1700, set out for the Sioux country with twenty-five men, in a small vessel of the kind called a "felucca," still used in the
April, 1700, set out for the Sioux country with twenty-five men, in a small vessel of the kind called a "felucca," still used in the Mediterranean.
These native boats are of several kinds, from the small "felucca," or open boat used for ferry or pleasure purposes, to the large "giassa," or cargo boat of the river.
We boarded what he called his felucca — an outboard-powered scow that bore no resemblance to the slender vessels of the Nile — and pulled out of Essaouira’s small harbor, crossing bands of sea now deep blue, now luminous green.