Meaning of barque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
2. Any small sailing vessel.
   archaic
3. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
   poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.”

“Barque of phosphor On the palmy beach…”

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