What is "barkentines"

Usage examples of "barkentines".

I took out barkentines so that groups of people could experience what it was like to sail in the tall ships.

Robert has been building period ships, not Middle Ages period but sloops and barkentines, that sort of thing.

They fell open on cobblestones and spilled out their illustrative woodcuts: portraits of great men, depictions of the Siege of Vienna, diagrams of mining-engines, a map of some Italian city, a dissection of the large bowel, vast tables of numbers, musketeer drills, geometers’ proofs, human skeletons in insouciant poses, the constellations of the Zodiac, rigging of foreign barkentines, design of alchemical furnaces, glaring Hottentots with bones in their noses, thirty flavors of Baroque window-frames.