serpentine

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Their wild variety mirrored the diversity of the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island: Dutch flat- bottomed boats, Chinese junks, plush French yachts, Norwegian barkentines.

From Time Magazine Archive

"How can you think and talk of old barkentines and non-insurable foreign cargoes at this crisis in our country's history?" the autocrat of the numerous Ricks corporations shrilled furiously.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

A number of tramp steamers, barkentines, and the big Hong Kong boat were lying in the harbor, while the coasting steamers of the Chinese merchants and the smaller hemp-boats lined the docks.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

Schooners there were and brigs and brigantines, and barks and barkentines, and other craft from Europe and the West Indies and South America.

From The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

The La Guayra was in port, lying well out: her mountainous iron mass rising high above the modest sailing craft moored in her vicinity,—barks and brigantines and brigs and schooners and barkentines.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio