barque

  1. Noun.  A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged.
  2. Noun.  (archaic) any small sailing vessel.
  3. Noun.  (context, poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

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