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Batil (ship)

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A batil on the obverse side of the Kuwaiti 1-Dinar note

Batil (Arabic: بتيل‎ batīl), also spelled bateel or battil, is a traditional type of sailing vessel from Kuwait with a fiddle-headed bow and a high sternboard.[1]


References

  1. ^ Dickson, H.R.P. The Arab of the Desert 2015 Routledge ISBN 9781138845749