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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel having at least two masts, with a foremast that is usually smaller than the other masts.
  2. n. A large beer glass, generally holding a pint or more.
  3. n. A prairie schooner.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fore-and-aft rigged vessel, formerly with only two masts, but now often with three, and sometimes with four or five. Schooners lie nearer the wind than square-rigged vessels, are more easily handled, and require much smaller crews; hence their general use as coasters and yachts. See also cut under pilot-boat.
  2. n. A covered emigrant-wagon formerly used on the prairies. See prairie-schooner.
  3. n. A tall glass used for liquor, especially lager-beer, and supposed to hold more than an ordinary beer-glass.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Naut.) 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.
  2. n. U.S. A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large beer glass
  2. n. sailing vessel used in former times

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear "The development of a faster fishing boat, the schooner, increased production capacity of this quick cure a cheap type of salt-cured codfish sold in the West Indies and West Africa. In 1713, the first schooner was built and launched from Eastern Point, Gloucester, by Andrew Robinson, and though there were earlier European experiments with this type of rigging, the Gloucester schooner revolutionized sailing and fishing. It was a small, sleek, two-masted vessel with fore-and-aft rigging and the ability to put a tremendous amount of canvas in topsails. The name comes from an eighteenth-century New England word, scoon, meaning "to skim lightly along the water." In full sail with a good breeze and a flat sea, heeling at a slight angle, the vessels did seem to scoon, and this remains one of the most elegant sights in the history of sailing. But often they were out on the Banks climbing up and tobogganing down swells as high as their masts."
    —Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 83 Jul 15, 2009

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