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barkentine

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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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bar·ken·tine also bar·quen·tine   (bär'kən-tēn')   
n.  A sailing ship with from three to five masts of which only the foremast is square-rigged, the others being fore-and-aft rigged.

[Probably bark3 + (brig)antine.]
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barkentine

sailingsailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged. Because of the reduction of square sails, it required fewer crew members and was popular in the Pacific after its introduction about 1830

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