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Barquentine — Description A barquentine (also spelled barkentine) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore and aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. See also sail plan. An example of a barquentine is the… … Wikipedia
barquentine — Barkentine Bark en*tine, n. [See {Bark}, n., a vessel.] (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square rigged, and the others schooner rigged. [Spelled also {barquentine}, {barkantine}, etc.] See Illust. in Append. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Barquentine (Gormenghast) — Barquentine is a character in the first two books in the Gormenghast series , ( Titus Groan and Gormenghast ). He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast castle. At first he lived a hermitic existence in an obscure tract of… … Wikipedia
Barquentine California — The Barquentine California was a barquentine ship measuring 83 feet. It was designed by Al Mason in 1927 while he was still in high school.During World War II, it was a Navy vessel in the South Pacific. After sailing around the world in the late… … Wikipedia
barquentine — variant of barkentine … New Collegiate Dictionary
barquentine — /bahr keuhn teen /, n. barkentine. Also, barquantine. * * * … Universalium
barquentine — n. barkentine, type of sailing ship … English contemporary dictionary
barquentine — [ bα:k(ə)nti:n] (US barkentine) noun a sailing ship similar to a barque but with only the foremast square rigged and the remaining masts rigged fore and aft. Origin C17: from barque, on the pattern of brigantine … English new terms dictionary
barquentine — bar·quen·tine … English syllables
barquentine — /ˈbakəntin/ (say bahkuhnteen) noun Nautical a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square rigged on the foremast and fore and aft rigged on the other masts. Also, barquantine, barkentine. {barque + (briga)ntine} …
