Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of barkentine.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast
Examples
“I think a barquentine is the most beautiful of ships, the most aerial and graceful of rigs, the foremast with its transverse spars giving breadth and balance, and steadying the unhindered lift skywards of main and mizzen poles.”
“He would clamp me and take me aboard yonder frigate, or schooner, or barquentine, or whatever-the-hell-it-was.”
“She is barquentine rigged, and has triple – expansion engines giving her a speed under steam of nine to ten knots.”
“The vessel, a three-masted barquentine, has 58 people on board, including 34 cadets from the Polish Naval Academy at Gdynia.”
“There were a couple of schooners used in the china-clay trade lying at the quayside; at anchor was a barquentine, a big bluff-bellied tramp of a creature, black with coaldust, and beyond her again what was still a rare sight in those parts -- a steamer.”
“The vessel on the Goodwins was the three-masted schooner or barquentine”
“On, on came the pursuing vessel; a cloud of black smoke rolling from her smoke-stack; her white sails bellying in the fresh breeze; for she was rigged like a barquentine, with a lean body, single smoke-stack, and a polished rifle-gun winking in the sun-rays upon her bow.”
“And it drives a blackish barquentine, with every topsail taut,”
“Owners are rogues, for the most part," commented the Danish barquentine, rubbing against the _Touch-me-nots_ fender as if to nudge her.”
“(C.P.B.H. for "Christmas Eve"), he ran indoors with the news that all six were answering with bushes of holly at their topmast heads, while one -- a Danish barquentine -- had rove stronger halliards and carried a tall fir-tree at the main, its branches reaching many feet above her truck.”
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Tweets
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bilby Nice spot c_b. Mar 31, 2008
chained_bear Bilby, I found another example of the same implied preposition:
"...the morning sun showed him the Amiable Catherine of London, homeward-bound... The Catherine had not the slightest wish to speak the Surprise, knowing very well that the frigate might press several of her best hands..."
--O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 165 Mar 31, 2008
vanishedone Failing that, maybe a Wordie pegleg, in honour of the character from the Gormenghast trilogy. Mar 30, 2008
seanahan We could all chip in and buy a Wordie yacht. Or as a coworker said the other day, "I tried yacht.woot.com, but it didn't work". Mar 29, 2008
reesetee On the list, is it? :-) I never thought that much about it before now, but it does sound like quite an experience. Mar 28, 2008
chained_bear I have been looking around for vacations where you can crew a sailing ship and found a few possibilities. This is definitely something I must do before I die. Mar 28, 2008
reesetee Every time I see this word, I think of the one barquentine I've actually seen: the Gazela, which is now with the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild. Beautiful craft. You can take tall ship sailing "classes" on it, which I am sorely tempted to try. :-)
There, the word has always been spelled "barkentine." I think this spelling is more elegant. Mar 28, 2008
sionnach Should I ever inherit a barquentine, I fully intend to call it "The Fearful Porpentine". Mar 28, 2008
bilby I see what you're suggesting c_b, which is an intriguing grammatical point about the implied preposition. Mar 28, 2008
chained_bear No, bilby, I think in this case he was saying that the guy had spoken to the ship, or more specifically to that ship's crew, but in the time period and with these characters "spoken a barquentine" (or schooner for that matter) would have conveyed that meaning. Everything out of their fictional mouths is pretty archaic.
I would think "teen," just like brigantine. Mar 28, 2008
seanahan Dictionaries tend to agree on teen. Mar 28, 2008
bilby Spoken of a barquentine? But I'm not here to nitpick actually, just to say this a pretty word. Do you know if it was traditionally pronounced -tyne or -teen? Mar 28, 2008
chained_bear "'What is more he said that you had spoken a barquentine which had touched at Callao...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 237 Mar 28, 2008