Barque

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·same·as 3d Bark, ·noun.

II. Barque ·noun A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

III. Barque ·noun 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.

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