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Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 24

A large flat-bottomed ve el, with three masts, and a short bowsprit placed on the starboard bow, used by the Chinese. The masts are supported by two or three shrouds, which at times are all carried on the whidward side; and the fore or main mast carries a sort of lug sail of cane of bamboo. [s. 635]