barquentine

or bar·quan·tine

[ bahr-kuhn-teen ]

noun
  1. a variant of barkentine.

Words Nearby barquentine

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use barquentine in a sentence

  • She is barquentine rigged, and has triple-expansion engines giving her a speed under steam of nine to ten knots.

    South! | Sir Ernest Shackleton
  • The only barquentine among the ships lay apart from the others, pointing towards the harbour entrance.

  • The barquentine's boat was rapidly pulling towards this full-rigged ship, with Captain Barlow sitting in the stern-sheets.

  • As I started from the landing place I looked back at the barquentine, where I had had so many adventures.

  • As we meet the fresh breeze at the entrance to the Kattegat, a barquentine, under full sail, glides past us without a sound.

British Dictionary definitions for barquentine

barquentine

barquantine

/ (ˈbɑːkənˌtiːn) /


noun
  1. a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others: Usual US and Canadian spelling: barkentine

Origin of barquentine

1
C17: from barque + (brig) antine

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012