Meanings
plural barkentines
- 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 162 more examples
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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