Barque is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BARQUE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a three-masted vessel whose mizzen-mast is fore-and-aft-rigged
• a sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore and aft.
• a boat.
• sailing ship, esp one with three masts
• 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.
• A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
• Same as 3d Bark, n.
• a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sailing vessel

Words related to BARQUE

barques18

Words that contain BARQUE

barques18 barquette20 barquettes21 barquentine22 barquentines23 embarquement27 embarquements28

How to use BARQUE in a sentence

• There were many seamen in the port who knew the lines and rig of the pirate barque, and not one of them could see the slightest difference in this counterfeit.
• Again there came the burst of voices from the deck of the barque.
• The long, sleek, black barque, the sweep of white sand, and the fringe of nodding feathery palm trees sprang into dazzling light and back into darkness again.
• The ship in which I made my present voyage, was the Dutch barque Lootpuit, a fine, strong vessel, quite remarkable for its cleanliness.
• A barque from Ceylon, making the most of the wind, with every rag of canvass set, passed us slowly on the way eastward.
• I now launch my barque upon a wider ocean than before.
• The fisherman handed him a dirty letter, and on opening it the Veteran found that it was from one of the able seamen aboard the barque.
• Cursing Rouletabille, but believing his prey easily captured now, the Chief in his turn hurried to the Barque, into which Katharina had disappeared.
• The barque took in 100 head of cattle, the first that were landed at Port Fairy.
• My frail barque has great difficulty in reaching port.
• Levasseur received his commission from de Poincy in May 1640, assembled forty or fifty followers, all Calvinists, and sailed in a barque to Hispaniola.
• Some of the English defenders later deposed before Governor Modyford that the Spaniards had agreed to let them depart in a barque for Jamaica.
• He commanded a barque carrying three guns and a crew of fifty men.
• There was nothing in sight saving the topmost cloths of a little barque heading eastwards away down to leeward.
• The splitting of the ice had hoisted the shelf or beach on which the barque lay, and occasioned that sensation of flying into the air which I had noticed.
• They took a small barque laden with hides upon the way, but dismissed her as being useless to them after they had robbed her of her pump.
• During the morning they took another small barque, in which Captain Harris placed thirty men, and hoisted the green flag.
• The passport made by the great master of Malta to the Englishmen in the barque Reynolds, 1582.
• Ere the sun had set a barque had been seen, and her appearance caused unwonted excitement in our solitudes.
• I had some prudence, however, and therefore chartered my barque and sailed her as master two short voyages to Bremen and Amsterdam with the best under-officers I could secure.
• There was now nearly three feet of water in the hold, and every one knew that the barque could not keep afloat much longer.
• A barque just arriving comes alongside the quay, the other vessels making room for her to pass.
• Eleven different ships have been employed in this service, ranging from a little sloop of seventy tons to a barque of two hundred and forty tons.
• He had resolved to run away and conceal himself until the vessel had sailed, and then ship aboard an American barque which was in port.
• The chief mate of the American barque was courting the daughter, a handsome young woman, whom he ultimately married.
• The captain had a dream, or, as he stated, a vision, when off Cape Horn bound to Valparaiso in a barque belonging to a South Wales port.
• In 1871 I shipped aboard a barque in Liverpool as chief officer.
• I was afraid to do anything, to say anything, for or against, this launching of his barque upon the social sea.

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