schooner
schooner
Definition
☆ schooner (sko̵̅o̅′nər)
noun
- a sailing vessel with two or more masts, rigged fore and aft
- prairie schooner
- a large beer glass, usually holding a pint
Etymology: < ? Scot dial. scun, to skip a flat stone across water
schooner
Synonyms
schooner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- mast: The first ship was a 1925 built, three masted schooner, DAN.
- capture: She captured a French schooner with 40 tons of cocoa and jewels valued at 12,000 pieces of eight.
- build: Blanche King A classic American schooner built in 1887, sunk in 1920.
- own: A passionate seaman, he owned a schooner, the Fiery Cross.
- get: The crew gets a schooner called the Hispaniola and set sail not knowing the problems they will face.
- wreck: Sale by auction of the wrecked schooner " William Thornborrow " of London.
Adjective modifier
- three-masted: Some delegates also visited the Santa Eulalia, the three-masted schooner recently restored by the Museum.
- American: American schooner Sally, from Norfolk; laden with flour, captured by the boats of the squadron same date.
- little: But the gale which now began to buffet the little schooner was of more than ordinary violence.
- small: From a few small schooners and brigantines the fleet expanded into one of the best-known steam collier fleets operating in Great Britain and Ireland.
- four-masted: A planksoon other the four-masted schooner save the us went to the.
- wooden: The wrecks range from wooden schooners that sank in the early 1800s through to recently wrecked freighters like the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Modifies a noun
- cruise: Day 8 A five-hour optional schooner cruise visiting the beaches and islands of Parati bay.
- race: Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome Two schooners race across the Atlantic in search of buried treasure.
Noun used with modifier
- topsail: For her delivery voyage she was rigged as a topsail schooner, the mast being removed on arrival.
- pirate: It is quite evident that the pirate schooner cannot be far off.
- trading: Visit to Savaii in trading schooner weighing copra ' .
- century: To our first hunting club for windstar cruises to century schooner with.
- foot: Cachalote I is a charming 96 foot schooner overall, with 86.6 feet on deck, offering First Class service.
- sailing: Formerly busy with sailing schooners and ketches in the china-clay export trade.
schooner Quotes
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.
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