barque
Plural: barques
Noun
- A sailing ship with three or more masts.
- a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
- A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
- Any small sailing vessel.
- A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
Examples
- Playing BARQUE with the Q on a triple-letter square sailed him to victory.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.
Scrabble Score: 17
barque: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbarque: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
barque: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
barque: valid Words With Friends Word