Crossword clues for barque
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barque \Barque\, n. Same as 3d Bark, n.
Bark \Bark\, Barque \Barque\, n. [F. barque, fr. Sp. or It. barca, fr. LL. barca for barica. See Barge.]
Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
--Byron.(Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
variant of bark (n.2).
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged 2 (context archaic English) any small sailing vessel 3 (context poetic English) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind n. 1 A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged 2 (context archaic English) any small sailing vessel 3 (context poetic English) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind
WordNet
n. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts [syn: bark]
Wikipedia
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft.
Usage examples of "barque".
A small and clumsy crew shook out and sheeted home the topgallant sails that had been handed preparatory to anchoring, and at the same moment the barque hauled her wind and stood off, running to the southward across the harbor mouth.
OLIVER DORMAN, of the armed merchant barque Olive Branch, of Arundel, ten guns and twenty-five men, stared calculatingly upward, quadrant in hand, his grey fringe of chin whisker seeming to point accusingly at the towering spread of canvas that half filled itself in the faint, hot air currents of the doldrums, only to go slack once more, as though every sail, from the vast courses to the small and distant royals, had sickened beneath the violent glare of the August sun.
When the barque held on her course, another hail bellowed from the brig, following which her bow fell off again to larboard.
His shirt, drenched with perspiration, seemed to become even wetter when he contemplated what must have happened aboard the barque if those two guns had loosed their double loads of ball and grape at close range.
To leeward were a barque and a brig, and far back on their lee quarter, very faint, a sail.
I had not wished the barque for myself, I would not have fought this war brig, and so lost several men and suffered grave damage.
English far from home, therefore, your barque can run safely into a French port, where there will be a ready market for her cargo.
CAPTAIN CAUTION 333 Sailors filled the waist of the barque from larboard to starboard bulwarks.
He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.
It was late afternoon of a chill October day when the barque skirted the tumbled rocks of Roscoff and, with her bulwarks and rigging studded thick with sea-weary sailors, ran close-hauled for the high-banked estuary at the end of which lies Morlaix.
Admirall The barque belongs to a poor, helpless girl with no mind for business.
Also an agreement that when the barque is cut out, the lady, if aboard, is to be set ashore before putting to sea.
Also an agreement that the crew shall be taken for imprisonment to the hulks farthest removed from the port where the barque was captured.
XIV BY FIVE DAYS Captain Slade meant the five since he had left the Olive Branch in the harbor of Morlaix, where that patient barque still lay with all her cargo, and a great deal of perplexity aboard her.
Her broad walls of canvas hung over the barque, seeming to Marvin to cut off from the Olive Branch all sun and light and air.