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Barque

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged

n. any small sailing vessel

n. a sailing vessel or boat of any kind

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Same as 3d bark, n.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See bark.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

Word Usage

"Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sailing vessel sailing ship

Variant

bark

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

clipper schooner brig sloop trawler frigate steamship skiff whaler merchantman