barquentine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of barquentine
C17: from barque + ( brig ) antine
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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
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
She is barquentine rigged, and has triple-expansion engines giving her a speed under steam of nine to ten knots.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
He could steer ’er barque or barquentine, An’ make her act jest gran!
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
They bent to the oars, and the skiff was driven at speed round the stranded hull of the barquentine.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
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