Definitions for "Barquentine"
Vessel with the foremast rigged square, and the other masts rigged fore-and-aft.
bark-in-tyne A sailing ship with the foremast square-rigged and the remaining (usu.two) masts for-and-aft rigged.
a sailing ship with three masts
Barquentine is a character in the first two books in the Gormenghast series , (Titus Groan (novel) and Gormenghast (novel)). He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast castle. At first lived a hermitic existence in an obscure tract of the castle.