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A medium (10 fluid ounce) size glass of beer. See also Schooner
a small stove used in schooners’ cabins and fore-castles, also in small houses and tilts. A “Beehive†stove
a schooner was broomed when the owner wanted to sell her. Instead of an ad in the paper, the old birch broom used in sweeping the deck was hoisted to the mast-head
men who fished from schooners using cod traps rather than jiggers
a fore-topsail schooner
A type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts, first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century.
Schooner on the rocks is nautical slang for joint of meat roasted and surrounded by potatoes or batter.
A large glass of beer in the state of New South Wales
A warship that has operated inside the Arctic Circle gets blue paint added to the bow to show this fact. People who served in the ship are awarded a Bluenose Certificate. Not to be confused with those from Nova Scotia who consider themselves "Bluenosers" or the schooner named "Bluenose".
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A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
a.
Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
v. t.
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
n.
The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
n.
In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
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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 threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.
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A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
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Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.
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A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
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The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
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