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prettygoodwordpolacre or polacca (both poh-LAH-kuh) - n., a ship with two or three single-pole masts with mixed square and lateen rigging used in the Mediterranean.
Always square on the main-mast and lateen (or mixed square and lateen) on the mizzen, and if there's a foremast lateen there as well. The overall look is similar to the xebec, though in pictures the stern seems to be not quite as overhanging:
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In use from the 1600s through the 1800s. The name is of obscure origin, taken from either French polacre or Italian polacca, both meaning Polish, but why call it that is unknown.
---L.
Always square on the main-mast and lateen (or mixed square and lateen) on the mizzen, and if there's a foremast lateen there as well. The overall look is similar to the xebec, though in pictures the stern seems to be not quite as overhanging:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
In use from the 1600s through the 1800s. The name is of obscure origin, taken from either French polacre or Italian polacca, both meaning Polish, but why call it that is unknown.
---L.
