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Latten vs Lateen - What's the difference?

latten | lateen |

As nouns the difference between latten and lateen

is that latten is an alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools while lateen is 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.

latten

English

(wikipedia latten)

Alternative forms

* laton

Noun

  • (archaic, or, historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
  • Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.
    • gold latten

    Anagrams

    * * English adjectives ending in -en ----

    lateen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) 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.
  • * 1980 : The lateen sail is triangular or a quadrilateral which is almost triangular, the former being the type used by the Byzantines. — Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600 , page 47.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "lateen")