BARQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barque mean? 

• BARQUE (noun)
  The noun BARQUE has 1 sense:

1. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

  Familiarity information: BARQUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bark; barque

Hypernyms ("barque" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

 Context examples 

I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Lone Star was there in January, ’85, my suspicion became a certainty.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a nice question, for the Cape de Verds were about five hundred miles to the north of us, and the African coast about seven hundred to the east. On the whole, as the wind was coming round to the north, we thought that Sierra Leone might be best, and turned our head in that direction, the barque being at that time nearly hull down on our starboard quarter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The seamen had hauled the foreyard aback during the rising, but now as we left them they brought it square again, and as there was a light wind from the north and east the barque began to draw slowly away from us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)