barque
IPA: bɑrk
noun
- A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
- (archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
- (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
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Examples of "barque" in Sentences
- In 1889 she was re rigged as barque.
- Also on the barque is an offering stand.
- It was a barque rigged auxiliary steamer.
- In 1976 the ship was re rigged to a barque.
- London, in 1884 and reduced to a barque rig.
- She was rigged as a barque with an iron mast.
- Amenhotep I constructed a barque shrine and a gateway.
- But there are many refences to the barque, without the wiki.
- He was involved in the design of the 1850 clipper barque Race Horse.
- The gale of 1733 shattered the bridge, sinking the barques supporting it.
- Some brigs are larger than barques, but _generally_ the barque is the larger vessel.
- Just ahead of the barque was a very handsome brigantine, also bound for the Friendly Islands.
- By sundown the brigantine was hull down ahead of us, though the barque was a very smart vessel, and we were then making eleven knots.
- The barque was the slowest craft of the three, and Joe Lockett had every stitch of canvas set, to enable him to keep up with the others.
- Now it chanced that among the cargo carried by the barque was a small launch intended for the use of a plantation owner in South America.
- The barque was a poor sailer; we thought it a good run if she made eight knots an hour, so no wonder we did not reach Singapore till May 23,
- 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.
- I thank the Lord that I was able to fulfil all my duties while on board the barque, that is, to preach once on the Sabbath, hold prayers every morning and evening, and say grace at every meal.
- For half the year the barque is the home of the government's marine biologist, and his office and laboratory, wherein scientific investigation and experimentation are in constant progress, are in houses built on the quarter-deck.
- The other three turned to see what it was that had so disturbed their comrade, and then they, too, were struck dumb with consternation; for, standing at the door of the companion-hatch -- the barque was a flush-decked vessel -- was the mandarin whom they had left for dead.