noun.
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
noun.
any small sailing vessel
noun.
a sailing vessel or boat of any kind
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noun.
a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
Word Usage
"Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten."