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Lateen
Lateen meaning
A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail.
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The rest of the work is a vast landscape that is ironically of far more interest than poor Icarus himself, because it documents the European discovery of the lateen sail and furrow plow at least 50 years before any written record.
Lateen sloops have triangular sails with the upper edge attached to a gaff, and the lower edge attached to the boom, and the boom and gaff are attached to each other via some type of hinge.
The foresail and mainsail were square; the sail on the mizzen was a triangular sail known as a lateen mizzen.
There is a suggestion that the rig was sometimes used in a lateen style with the top cross spar dipped at an angle to aid sailing to windward i.e. the spar became the luff.