Definition of schooner Schooner

/skuˈnɚ/ - [skuner] - schoon•er

We found 11 definitions of schooner from 7 different sources.

What does schooner mean?

Noun Plural: schooners
schooner - sailing vessel used in former times
		sailing ship, sailing vessel a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
schooner - a large beer glass

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schooner (Noun)
A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
schooner (Noun)
A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states Wikipedia.
schooner (Noun)
A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale Wikipedia.

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

schooner
skōōn′ėr, 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. [Coined in New England from the prov. Eng. scoon (Scot. scon), to make a flat stone skip along the surface of water; A.S. scúnian.]

schooner
a small vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore-sail are suspended from gaffs reaching from the mast towards the stern; and stretched out below by booms, whose foremost ends are hooked to an iron, which clasps the mast so as to turn therein as upon an axis, when the after ends are swung from one side of the vessel to the other.

schooner
Strictly, a small craft with two masts and no tops, but the name is also applied to fore-and-aft vessels of various classes. There are two-topsail schooners both fore and aft, main-topsail schooners, with two square top-sails; fore-topsail schooners with one square top-sail. Ballahou schooners, whose fore-mast rakes forward; and we also have three-masted vessels called schooners.