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schooner Definition

schooner (sko̵̅o̅nər)

noun

  1. a sailing vessel with two or more masts, rigged fore and aft
  2. prairie schooner
  3. a large beer glass, usually holding a pint

Etymology: < ? Scot dial. scun, to skip a flat stone across water

schooner Synonyms

schooner

n.

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.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth