Obs. Also 7 barqua-, 7–8 barco-longo. [Pg. or OSp.; lit. ‘long barge.’] ‘A large Spanish fishing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts … common in the Mediterranean.’ Falconer, Dict. Marine, 1789.
1681. Lond. Gaz., 1608/1. With a Sloop and a Barqua-Longa. Ibid. (1691), No. 2708/1. The French … have only one Barco Longo … left.
1762. More, in Phil. Trans., LII. 451. The self-same barcalonga, or xebeck.
1790. Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 335. Sent Captain Veale in a barcolongo, attended by two feluccas, to attempt to destroy them.
