barkentine

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of barquentine.

   “There was a barkentine in Halifax harbor. That was a thing worth looking at in the year 1933.”

   “The William Olsen, a San Francisco barkentine, kedged out into the lagoon as fast as possible, and through the tearing sheets of rain I glimpsed other vessels reaching for a holding-ground.”

   “She is passenger on the square-rigged barkentine Speedwell, now lying off the coast of Virginia.”