Schooner

['skuːnə] or ['skunɚ]

Definition

(noun.) sailing vessel used in former times.

(noun.) a large beer glass.

Edited by Della--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

Typist: Sonia

Definition

n. a sharp-built swift-sailing vessel generally two-masted rigged either with fore-and-aft sails on both masts or with square top and topgallant sails on the foremast: an old form of covered emigrant-wagon: a large drinking-glass.—n. Schoon′er-smack a sharp-bowed schooner.

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