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- noun nautical A
sailing vessel similar to abarque , butfore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on themainmast
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Examples
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I think a barquentine is the most beautiful of ships, the most aerial and graceful of rigs, the foremast with its transverse spars giving breadth and balance, and steadying the unhindered lift skywards of main and mizzen poles.
London River 1915
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He would clamp me and take me aboard yonder frigate, or schooner, or barquentine, or whatever-the-hell-it-was.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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She is barquentine rigged, and has triple – expansion engines giving her a speed under steam of nine to ten knots.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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The vessel, a three-masted barquentine, has 58 people on board, including 34 cadets from the Polish Naval Academy at Gdynia.
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There were a couple of schooners used in the china-clay trade lying at the quayside; at anchor was a barquentine, a big bluff-bellied tramp of a creature, black with coaldust, and beyond her again what was still a rare sight in those parts -- a steamer.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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The vessel on the Goodwins was the three-masted schooner or barquentine
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor
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And it drives a blackish barquentine, with every topsail taut,
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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On, on came the pursuing vessel; a cloud of black smoke rolling from her smoke-stack; her white sails bellying in the fresh breeze; for she was rigged like a barquentine, with a lean body, single smoke-stack, and a polished rifle-gun winking in the sun-rays upon her bow.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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"Owners are rogues, for the most part," commented the Danish barquentine, rubbing against the _Touch-me-nots_ fender as if to nudge her.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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(C.P.B.H. for "Christmas Eve"), he ran indoors with the news that all six were answering with bushes of holly at their topmast heads, while one -- a Danish barquentine -- had rove stronger halliards and carried a tall fir-tree at the main, its branches reaching many feet above her truck.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
chained_bear commented on the word barquentine
"'What is more he said that you had spoken a barquentine which had touched at Callao...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 237
March 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word barquentine
Spoken of a barquentine? But I'm not here to nitpick actually, just to say this a pretty word. Do you know if it was traditionally pronounced -tyne or -teen?
March 28, 2008
seanahan commented on the word barquentine
Dictionaries tend to agree on teen.
March 28, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barquentine
No, bilby, I think in this case he was saying that the guy had spoken to the ship, or more specifically to that ship's crew, but in the time period and with these characters "spoken a barquentine" (or schooner for that matter) would have conveyed that meaning. Everything out of their fictional mouths is pretty archaic.
I would think "teen," just like brigantine.
March 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word barquentine
I see what you're suggesting c_b, which is an intriguing grammatical point about the implied preposition.
March 28, 2008
sionnach commented on the word barquentine
Should I ever inherit a barquentine, I fully intend to call it "The Fearful Porpentine".
March 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barquentine
Every time I see this word, I think of the one barquentine I've actually seen: the Gazela, which is now with the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild. Beautiful craft. You can take tall ship sailing "classes" on it, which I am sorely tempted to try. :-)
There, the word has always been spelled "barkentine." I think this spelling is more elegant.
March 28, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barquentine
I have been looking around for vacations where you can crew a sailing ship and found a few possibilities. This is definitely something I must do before I die.
March 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barquentine
On the list, is it? :-) I never thought that much about it before now, but it does sound like quite an experience.
March 29, 2008
seanahan commented on the word barquentine
We could all chip in and buy a Wordie yacht. Or as a coworker said the other day, "I tried yacht.woot.com, but it didn't work".
March 30, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word barquentine
Failing that, maybe a Wordie pegleg, in honour of the character from the Gormenghast trilogy.
March 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barquentine
Bilby, I found another example of the same implied preposition:
"...the morning sun showed him the Amiable Catherine of London, homeward-bound... The Catherine had not the slightest wish to speak the Surprise, knowing very well that the frigate might press several of her best hands..."
--O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 165
March 31, 2008
bilby commented on the word barquentine
Nice spot c_b.
March 31, 2008