Definitions for barque

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Spelling: [bahrk]
IPA: /bɑrk/

Barque is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in barque (abeqru).

Definitions for barque

noun

  1. bark3 .
  2. Nautical. a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on all but the aftermost mast, which is fore-and-aft-rigged.
  3. Literary. a boat or sailing vessel.

Origin of barque

1425-75; late Middle English barke Old French barque ≪ Late Latin barca, Latin *bārica, bāris Greek bâris Egyptian barge Coptic barī barge

Examples for barque

My brother explained that the barque was intended to be not "seen."

In vain the boats attempted to carry the hawsers to the barque.

Their first vessel, a barque of eight hundred tons, was sold at once in England.

With what an interest that barque became invested from that moment!

The barque had formerly been a French corvette—the Felix Bernaboo.

In their voyage they took a Portugueze barque, wherein they had rich plunder.

Would you like to go down in a diving-costume from a boat alongside the barque?

Then, when the barque was off the Tonga Islands, a large "pod" of whales were sighted.

It was blowing freshly and the barque was slipping through the water fast.

The signals of distress were from a Swedish barque, the Hedvig Sophia.

Word Value for barque
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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