barkentine

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

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounbarkentine (plural barkentines)

plural barkentines

  1. alternativenauticalAlternative spelling of barquentine.

    There was a barkentine in Halifax harbor. That was a thing worth looking at in the year 1933.

    1937 August, Theodore G. Roberts, “Lay Aft, Mr. Dutton!”, in Boys' Life, volume 27, number 8, page 16
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    The William Olsen, a San Francisco barkentine, kedged out into the lagoon as fast as possible, and through the tearing sheets of rain I glimpsed other vessels reaching for a holding-ground.

    1937, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

    She is passenger on the square-rigged barkentine Speedwell, now lying off the coast of Virginia.

    1990 May 18, Patrick Daugherty, “Reading: Fare for Flying”, in Chicago Reader
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APA

barkentine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkentine

MLA

“barkentine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkentine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “barkentine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkentine.

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