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Definition of Barques

Barque
Bark Bark, Barque Barque, n. [F. barque, fr. Sp. or It. barca, fr. LL. barca for barica. See Barge.] 1. 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. --Byron. 2. (Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Barque
Barque Barque, n. Same as 3d Bark, n.

Meaning of Barques from wikipedia

- three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above. The word "barque" entered...
- Information System: Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan Romig, Walter...
- Solar barques were the vessels used by the sun god Ra in ancient Egyptian mythology. During the day, Ra was said to use a vessel called the Mandjet (Ancient...
- from Pointe aux Barques. The reef, only covered by some two feet of water, extends nearly two miles into Lake Huron. Pointe aux Barques was also used as...
- shipyard of Astilleros Celaya in Bilbao, Spain. She is one of four similar barques built as sail training vessels for Latin American navies; her half-sisters...
- operating anywhere in the world, in the year 1953, were the Peruvian guano barques: the three-masters Tellus and Maipo, and the four-master Omega'." In 1957...
- tug boats Svitzer Thor and Svitzer Bob. There are only ten four-masted barques and one four-masted full-rigged ship (the Falls of Clyde) in existence...
- 639,111 residents; the smallest muni****lity by po****tion is Pointe Aux Barques Township with 15 residents. The largest muni****lity by land area is McMillan...
- iron-hulled barque restored and sailed by the Sydney Heritage Fleet, Sydney, Australia. She is one of only four pre-20th century barques in the world...
- The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in **** (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French...