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barque; also bark (maritime)
A sailing ship with three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.
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[Source: "Glossary." Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks (http://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/)]