batil

plural batils · alternative bateel · alternative battil

1. A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.

   The Batil, a vessel with a long fiddle-headed bow and two masts, which may be distinguished from other craft by the inner part of the stern-post being ornamented with devices cut in the wood.

   1877, Charles Rathbone Low, The History of the Indian Navy

   1 more example

   While baghlas and their smaller equivalents, battils, were used for Arab trade between the west coast of India and the Gulf, European-style ships were also increasingly prevalent in this trade.

   2020 August 20, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 157