Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sailing ship with from three to five masts of which only the foremast is square-rigged, the others being fore-and-aft rigged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
barkantine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also
barquentine ,barkantine , etc.] SeeIllust. in Append.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sailing Alternative spelling of
barquentine .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the 22d of August, 1696, this baby, a puny, fretful boy, was carried down the street of Port Royal, Jamaica, and on board the "barkentine"
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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"barkentine;" should she be a two-master, and have yards on both, she is a "brig;" should she have yards on the foremast only, she is a
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.
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We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.
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Yet I know that I arrived this very morning from China, with a quick passage to my credit, and master of the barkentine Harvester.
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
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Three times she had changed her rigging and now sailed as a barkentine, bound for a speculative run to Manila for an overload of mahogany which the Khedive of Egypt required for a palace he was building.
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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A barkentine, loaded with molave timber and carrying native passengers, had been driven ashore at the port that day, and the _One Lung_ had gone to the rescue and taken off the passengers.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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In 1406, Queen Margaret, it will be remembered, laid an interdict upon trade with them: for two centuries afterward not even a passing barkentine touched upon the Greenland shore.
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We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.
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He destroyed no less than fifteen piratical crafts of all sizes, from a large half-decked whaleboat to a three-hundred-ton barkentine.
hernesheir commented on the word barkentine
Also barquentine.
July 22, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word barkentine
"One day a barkentine with red sails appeared in the bay, and a red-headed man with a red beard came to shore."
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, p 197 of the Spectra trade paperback
May 22, 2016