barkentine

American  

[bahr-kuhn-teen] / ˈbɑr kənˌtin /

Or barkantine,

noun

Nautical.

1. a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.

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barkentine British  

/ ˈbɑːkənˌtiːn /

noun

1. British spellings: barquentine.   barquantine.  a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others

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Etymology

Origin of barkentine

An Americanism dating back to 1685–95; bark ³ + (brig)antine

Example Sentences

Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The square-rigged auxiliary barkentine Sea Cloud, in time of peace, supplied Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies with the kind of transportation they liked best.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also among the ships will be the graceful four-masted Chilean barkentine Esmeralda, a naval trainer once known, among other things, as "the National Pride."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was a barkentine of 295 tons, named for a headland in Tasmania, and she was rotting at a stone quay in St. Malo when Adrian Seligman found her.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this bankroll, he was able to purchase and outfit a three-masted, coal-powered barkentine called Polaris from a Norwegian firm that specialized in polar vessels.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong