schooner
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nər noun
1.
Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. Compare ketch, topsail schooner, yawl ( def 2 ).
2.
a very tall glass, as for beer.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a sailing vessel with at least two masts, with all lower sails rigged fore-and-aft, and with the main mast stepped aft |
| 2. | (Brit) a large glass for sherry |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian), (Austral), (NZ) a large glass for beer |
| [C18: origin uncertain] | |
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Schooner
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Word Origin & History
schooner
1716, perhaps from a New England verb related to Scottish scon "to send over water, to skip stones." Skeat relates this dial. verb to shunt. Spelling probably influenced by Du., but Du. schoener is a loan-word from English, as are Ger. Schoner, Fr. schooner, Swed. 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.
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Example sentences
For all the pleasure he took in a schooner of beer, there was no chance in the world that he would die drunk.
He does not sell beer by the bucket or can or growler or schooner, but by the pint.
He becomes the brutal and mean-spirited skipper of a tramp schooner.
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