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lateen, a. (n.)|læˈtiːn|
Also 8 latin, 8–9 latine, 9 lattine, latteen.
[A phonetic spelling of F. latine (in voile latine, ‘Latin sail’, in allusion to its use in the Mediterranean), fem. of latin Latin a. Cf. It. latina (Florio).]
lateen sail: a triangular sail suspended by a long yard at an angle of about 45 degrees to the mast. Hence, belonging to or having such a rig, as lateen mizzen, lateen vessel, lateen yard.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Sail, Others are triangular, called..by some Latin-sails, because chiefly used in Italy. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Lateen-sail,..frequently used by xebecs, polacres, settees, and other vessels..in the Mediterranean sea. Ibid. Tt 4, All yards are either square or lateen. 1777Forster Voy. round World I. 462 Their sails, which are latine, are made of strong mats. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 10, I..gave her a lateen mizen. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xiii, The white latteen sails of the gun-boat. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xl, There was a spanking felucca, with her long lateen sails brailed up. 1842E. Napier Mediterranean I. 312 These Latine vessels, or ‘misticos’ and ‘feluccas’, as they are generally termed, are fine boats. 1848W. Irving Columbus I. 130 The latine sails of the Niña were also altered into square sails, that she might work more steadily and securely. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads ix. 67 In the old times the almost universal rig was the lateen, the most picturesque of all rigs.
Comb.1880Daily Tel. 17 Sept., Lateen-rigged feluccas.
b. A lateener.
1836Marryat Midsh. Easy (1863) 275 Only three men were left in the latteens, and four in the galliot.
Hence laˈteener, a vessel with a lateen rig.
1873Young Englishwoman Oct. 515/2 ‘Here comes a lateener,’ says the captain, as a light vessel rigged in the style familiar to mariners of the Mediterranean,..takes a flight up the Broad. 1882G. C. Davies Riv. & Broads Norf. & Suff. viii. 49 An eight-ton lateener. 1883― Norfolk Broads ix. 68 One or two ancient craft at Norwich, are the only survivors of the old lateeners. 1953C. S. Forester Hornblower & Atropos 245 The lateener's heading this way. |