balancelle

plural balancelles

1. A garden seat in the form of a swing.
2. uncommonA small boat, typically with a single lateen sail, used in the Mediterranean.

   ... (balancelle, felucca, or aviso in service at Elba in 1806 and commissioned on 1.1.1807, 26-53 men, carried 1 x 10pdr, 2 x 3pdr, 2 swivels). Put at the disposition of Napoleon at Elba […]

   2015 September 16, Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786–1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, page 1599

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   ... sailing boat Tremolino, owned partly by Korzeniowski himself. He described her alternately as a balancelle, tartane, or felucca, but furnished her with two masts; boats of these types are single-masted.

   2007, Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, Camden House, →ISBN, page 60