Batil (ship)

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]

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


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