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  • noun Plural form of barkentine.

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Examples

  • She dredges up old boats, barkentines, praus, longboats vessels with rigging.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality; but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the masts.

    How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981

  • Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality; but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the sails.

    How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

  • Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality; but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the sails.

    How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

  • Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality; but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the sails.

    How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

  • In them you shall hear how these voyagers, in their poor barkentines of from ten to two hundred tons, entered into this region of enormous tides, of floating hordes of mountainous icebergs, of flaming signs in the sky -- into all the horrors, in fact, of an

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • "How can you think and talk of old barkentines and non-insurable foreign cargoes at this crisis in our country's history?" the autocrat of the numerous Ricks corporations shrilled furiously.

    Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

  • A number of tramp steamers, barkentines, and the big Hong Kong boat were lying in the harbor, while the coasting steamers of the Chinese merchants and the smaller hemp-boats lined the docks.

    The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

  • Before him the trunks of the palms shut off the blue of space, and, farther away, the sharp-pointed merlons of the wall extended to the sea, the luminous, immense sea, trembling with life as if the barkentines with their wind-filled sails were tickling its greenish surface.

    The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • Schooners there were and brigs and brigantines, and barks and barkentines, and other craft from Europe and the West Indies and

    The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi 1890

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