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Synonyms for schooner
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skoo-ner |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsku nər |
Définition of schooner
Origin :- fore-and-aft rigged vessel, originally with only two masts, 1716, perhaps from a New England verb related to Scottish scon "to send over water, to skip stones." Skeat relates this dialectal verb to shunt. Spelling probably influenced by Dutch, but Dutch schoener is a loan-word from English, as are German Schoner, French schooner, Swedish skonert. Said to have originated in Gloucester, Mass., shipyard.
- The rig characteristic of a schooner has been defined as consisting essentially of two gaff sails, the after sail not being smaller than the fore, and a head sail set on a bowsprit. [OED]
- Meaning "tall beer glass" is from 1879, of unknown origin or connection.
- noun boat
- Over his schooner of beer K. gathered something of the story.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- As he spoke there was a sudden soft jar and jerk, then the schooner was still.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- The schooner ahead of us had to cut, and she shifted her berth outside of us.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- When we got back to the schooner, we found her lifting her anchors.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The schooner was wet, and the seas she shipped would put out my fire.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The water was now up to my breast, and I knew the schooner must go over.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Of course we were lodged and fed, in waiting for the schooner to come in.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The topsail-yard was on the cap, and the schooner now came up into the wind.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- In one week I was thoroughly disgusted, and left the schooner.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- This shark, I was told, had kept company with me as long as I had been in sight from the schooner.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
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