barquentine

barquentine
A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast

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  • Barquentine — Description A barquentine (also spelled barkentine) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore and aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. See also sail plan. An example of a barquentine is the… …   Wikipedia

  • barquentine — Barkentine Bark en*tine, n. [See {Bark}, n., a vessel.] (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square rigged, and the others schooner rigged. [Spelled also {barquentine}, {barkantine}, etc.] See Illust. in Append. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Barquentine (Gormenghast) — Barquentine is a character in the first two books in the Gormenghast series , ( Titus Groan and Gormenghast ). He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast castle. At first he lived a hermitic existence in an obscure tract of… …   Wikipedia

  • Barquentine California — The Barquentine California was a barquentine ship measuring 83 feet. It was designed by Al Mason in 1927 while he was still in high school.During World War II, it was a Navy vessel in the South Pacific. After sailing around the world in the late… …   Wikipedia

  • barquentine — variant of barkentine …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • barquentine — /bahr keuhn teen /, n. barkentine. Also, barquantine. * * * …   Universalium

  • barquentine — n. barkentine, type of sailing ship …   English contemporary dictionary

  • barquentine — [ bα:k(ə)nti:n] (US barkentine) noun a sailing ship similar to a barque but with only the foremast square rigged and the remaining masts rigged fore and aft. Origin C17: from barque, on the pattern of brigantine …   English new terms dictionary

  • barquentine — bar·quen·tine …   English syllables

  • barquentine — /ˈbakəntin/ (say bahkuhnteen) noun Nautical a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square rigged on the foremast and fore and aft rigged on the other masts. Also, barquantine, barkentine. {barque + (briga)ntine} …  

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