barquentine

American  

[bahr-kuhn-teen] / ˈbɑr kənˌtin /

Or barquantine

noun

1. a variant of barkentine.

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barquentine British  

/ ˈbɑːkənˌtiːn /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of barquentine

C17: from _barque + ( _brig ) _antine

Example Sentences

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.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2018

There was no running away from the barquentine.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John

At nine o'clock on a morning of July during the next year an auxiliary barquentine of four hundred and fifty tons steamed westward with the tide past the Isle of Wight.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

He heard movements on board the barquentine, and he sculled a few swift strokes which sent him forward under the thick shadow of her broad stern, where he checked her way again.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John

"Well, I'll tell you," retorted Jim, with an indescribable twinkle: "you just meet me on the ballast, and we'll make it a barquentine."

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis