Barque vs Brig - What's the difference?
barque | brig |
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
* 1873 (published 1889, 1996), William Campbell, An Account of Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa , SMC Publishing Inc., page 279
(archaic) any small sailing vessel
(poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind
* 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), of Florida'', from collection ''[[w:Harmonium (poetry collection), Harmonium :
(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
As nouns the difference between barque and brig
is that barque is a sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged while brig is a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.barque
English
Alternative forms
* barkNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- Barque of phosphor
On the palmy beach…
