A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.
Variant of bark. a sailing ship with three, four, or five masts (=poles that the sails are fixed to) (barca, from )
A scale model of a Nile boat, with the prow and stern adorned with the "aegis" (shield) of the god or deity, and a "naos" (shrine) where the cabin would have been which contained the cult image Solar barques, such as those discovered at the Giza pyramids, were specialised funerary ritual boats, which may have been intended to carry the deceased through the underworld