barque
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost…A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
» The barque is smaller than a ship and larger than a boat.
Meaning
3 sensesA sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
(poetic)A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
(archaic)Any small sailing vessel.
баркbark, па́русникpárusnik
Examples
1 sentencesThe barque is smaller than a ship and larger than a boat.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed frFrom Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.
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