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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

barque, or bark in the USA, a vessel with at least three masts all square rigged except for the mizzen which is fore-and-aft rigged. Until the mid-19th century barques were relatively small commercial sailing ships of up to about 500 tons. Later they were built up to about 3,000 GRT for the grain and nitrate trades. Finally four- and five-masted barques of over 5,000 GRT were built for this trade ranging up to the biggest sailing ship ever built, France II, of 5,806 gross register tonnage. Although obsolete as trading vessels, several of the larger barques are still in commission as sail training ships, and new barque-rigged vessels have been built for this purpose. Several decommissioned barques have also been preserved in many countries as museum ships.

See also clipper.

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barque

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

barque, bark boat XV; three-masted vessel XVII. — (O)F. barque, prob. — Pr. barca :- late L. barca, of which a var. *barica may be repr. by BARGE.
Hence barquentine XVII, after BRIGANTINE.

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barque

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

barque / bärk/ • n. variant spelling of bark³.

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barque

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

barque see bark .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

barque •arc, ark, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach •matriarch, patriarch •tanbark • ringbark • stringy-bark •Offenbach • ironbark • oligarch •salesclerk • titlark • skylark •meadowlark • woodlark • mudlark •landmark • checkmark • Denmark •benchmark • waymark • trademark •seamark • Bismarck • telemark •tidemark • Kitemark • pockmark •Ostmark • hallmark • Goldmark •Deutschmark • bookmark • footmark •earmark • watermark • birthmark •anarch • car park • skatepark •ballpark •Petrarch, tetrarch •hierarch, squirearch •exarch • Pesach • loan shark •Plutarch • aardvark

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