barquentine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of barquentine
C17: from barque + ( brig ) antine
Example Sentences
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Feeling the need for new perspectives on life, I applied – and in early June joined 28 other participants, plus guides and crew, on the three-masted barquentine Antigua.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2018
"Well, I'll tell you," retorted Jim, with an indescribable twinkle: "you just meet me on the ballast, and we'll make it a barquentine."
From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
As I started from the landing place I looked back at the barquentine, where I had had so many adventures.
From Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield
It’s bearing down to port, And it drives a blackish barquentine, with every topsail taut, There’re guns upon her poop deck.
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
At nine o'clock on a morning of July during the next year an auxiliary barquentine of four hundred and fifty tons steamed westward with the tide past the Isle of Wight.
From The Turnstile by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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