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barkantine

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bark⋅en⋅tine

  [bahr-kuhn-teen]
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–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, bark⋅an⋅tine, barquentine, barquantine.

Origin:
1685–95, Americanism; bark 3 + (brig)antine
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