bark

The Sailor's Word-Book

I.


The exterior covering of vegetable bodies, many of which are useful in making paper, cordage, cloth, dyes, and medicines.

II.

, or barque

[from barca, Low Latin]. A general name given to small ships, square-sterned, without head-rails; it is, however, peculiarly appropriated by seamen to a three-masted vessel with only fore-and-aft sails on her mizen-mast.

♦ Bark-rigged. Rigged as a bark, with no square sails on the mizen-mast.

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