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

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Example Sentences

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barkentine

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

And by the way, Capitana is now a barkentine, not a ketch.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1924 I sailed for a long cruise in the barkentine St. George, which visited remote islands in the Pacific to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down below was a little grey barkentine plowing through the water with all sails set: the German naval training ship Niobe.

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

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