Definitions for barkentines

barkentines bark·en·tine

Spelling: [bahr-kuh n-teen]
IPA: /ˈbɑr kənˌtin/

Barkentines is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1135 anagrams from letters in barkentines (abeeiknnrst).

Definitions for barkentines

noun

  1. a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.

Origin of barkentines

An Americanism dating back to 1685-95; bark3 + (brig)antine

Examples for barkentines

The barkentine went right between the Louisiana and the Georgia.

I pulled your barkentine Retriever out of the breakers this morning.

The barkentine Amelia was one of his latest and longest commands.

At all events, it is known that he set himself to steal the charm and desert from the barkentine.

Out there amid the sapphire-blue, tranquil and white, gleamed the sails of the barkentine.

"I was on a barkentine, trading between New York and Brazil once, when we got hit by a twister," said a machinist's mate.

She is barkentine rigged, a hundred and twenty feet long, with a speed of nine knots.

Only the barkentine brought to Padre Ignacio the signs from the world that he once had known and loved so dearly.

Only the barkentine brought the world that he loved to the padre.

A barkentine with a dim light was sighted about 800 yards to the west of Admiral Evans's squadron.

Word Value for barkentines
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