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barkentine

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bar·ken·tine also bar·quen·tine  (bärkn-tn)
n.
A sailing ship with from three to five masts of which only the foremast is square-rigged, the others being fore-and-aft rigged.
[Probably bark + (brig)antine.]
barkentine, barkantine [ˈbɑːkənˌtiːn]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) the usual US and Canadian spellings of barquentine


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The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Yet I know that I arrived this very morning from China, with a quick passage to my credit, and master of the barkentine Harvester.
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