Why Is It Called a Mizzen Mast?
The Name of the Third, Aftermost, Mast of a Square-Rigged Sailing Ship or of a Three-Masted Schooner, or the Small After Mast of a Ketch or a Yawl (But See...
The name of the third, aftermost, mast of a square-rigged sailing ship or of a three-masted schooner, or the small after mast of a ketch or a yawl (but see also jigger-mast). ... The word also possibly came from the Arabic misn meaning mast, and was associated with the lateen sail, also of Arabic origin.
Why is it called Mizzen?
mizzen (n.)
"aftermost fore-and-aft sail of a three-masted ship," early 15c., mesan, via French misaine "foresail, foremast," altered (by influence of Italian mezzana "mizzen") from Old French migenne, from Catalan mitjana, from Latin medianus "of the middle" (from PIE root *medhyo- "middle").
Which mast is the mizzen mast?
Mizzen-mast: the aft-most mast. Typically shorter than the fore-mast. Some names given to masts in ships carrying other types of rig (where the naming is less standardised) are: Bonaventure mizzen: the fourth mast on larger sixteenth-century galleons, typically lateen-rigged and shorter than the main mizzen.
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