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Webster 1913 Edition

Barque

{

Bark

,

Barque

}
,
Noun.
[F.
barque
, fr. Sp. or It.
barca
, fr. LL.
barca
for
barica
. See
Barge
.]
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.
Byron.
2.
(Naut.)
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Barque

,
Noun.
Same as 3d
Bark
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Barque

BARQUE

,
Noun.
A small ship; but appropriately, a ship which carries three masts without a mizen top sail. The English mariners, in the coal trade, apply this name to a broadsterned ship without a figure-head.
Water-barks, in Holland, are small vessels, for conveying fresh water from place to place, the hold of which is filled with water.

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