Definitions for barques

barques barque

Spelling: [bahrk]
IPA: /bɑrk/

Barques is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in barques (abeqrsu).

Definitions for barques

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 barques

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

Examples for barques

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for barques
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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