barquentine

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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.

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  • The large barquentine Pogoria (right) from Poland, who did not leave Ílhavo with the rest of the fleet, has now had her crew change. —  Irish Blogs
  • I have used this image is used to illustrate the form of a barquentine. —  Museum Blogs
  • She was rigged as a barquentine. —  With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure
  • 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. —  Secret Bread
  • 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. —  London River
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