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English Dictionary: barque by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
barque
n
  1. a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts [syn: bark, barque]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Barque \Barque\, n.
      Same as 3d {Bark}, n.
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