Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of bark3.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See bark.
Wiktionary
- 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as 3d bark, n.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
Examples
“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.”
The Guardian: A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
“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.”
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
“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.”
“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.”
“Just ahead of the barque was a very handsome brigantine, also bound for the Friendly Islands.”
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
“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.”
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
“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.”
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
“Some brigs are larger than barques, but _generally_ the barque is the larger vessel.”
“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.”
“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,”
madmouth the barque's worse than the beit Jun 15, 2009