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barque
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synonyms: pinnace, gig ???
tags: [archaic] [nautical]
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Definition: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.2. (Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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get into the barque, and take care not to make it a barque of Charon.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
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a boat of about six thousand tons, and, from all accounts, shamefully crowded. These diminutive barques should be prohibited from carrying more than a definite number of passengers.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Mellonta Tauta (1849)
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He offered himself and a friend to accompany me, and that I should be provided with a small convenient bark for the voyage.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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'It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation. That he leaves to abler and to purer hands.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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Therefore prepare thyself.
The bark is ready and the wind at help,
Th' associates tend, and everything is bent
For England.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
Ambrose Bierce. Can Such Things Be?
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