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barquentine

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[ bahr-kuhn-teen ]

noun

  1. a variant of barkentine.


barquentine

/ ˈɑːəˌپː /

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 spellingbarkentine
“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
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Origin of barquentine1

C17: from barque + ( brig ) antine
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The 44-metre long, three-masted barquentine may be so much debris scattered over the seabed.

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Feeling the need for new perspectives on life, I applied – and in early June joined 28 other participants, plus guides and crew, on the three-masted barquentine Antigua.

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The images revealed a three-masted barquentine, covered in mussels and algae but lying on the bottom still largely intact.

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He continued his TV work, appearing in Wall of Silence in 1993, a BBC murder mystery set in a Jewish community in north London, and took the part of Barquentine in the corporation's ambitious production of Gormenghast.

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It was arranged that the barquentine 'John' should call at Trinidad on her way from Santos to Bull River, and that Captain P——'s son should go with the vessel so as to identify the spot and act on his father's behalf.

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