schooner

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Just as the schooner was about to sail, ensign Post came aboard and asked for Mr. Malone. Terrence was sitting aft the main cabin smoking a cigar, when the ensign, approaching, asked Where is Lieutenant Matson?

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

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  1. The first vessel so called is said to have been built at Gloucester, Mass., by Captain Andrew Robinson, about 1713. When the vessel slid off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out, “O, how she scoons!” Robinson instantly replied, “A scooner let her be!”; and from that time vessels of this kind have gone by the name thus accidentally imposed. The proper spelling is scooner, literally ‘skipper’ or ‘skimmer,’ from scoon, q. v., + -er. It is now spelled schooner, as if derived from Dutch schooner; but the D. schooner, German schoner, schooner, schuner, Swedish skonert, Danish skonnert, French schooner, Spanish Portuguese escuna, Russian shkuna, Turk, uskuna, are all from English A similar allusion to the light, skimming movement of the vessel is involved in the usual F. name for a schooner, goëlette, literally ‘a little gull,’ diminutive of goëland, a gull, from Breton gwelan = Welsh gwylan = Cornish gullan, a gull: see gull.
 

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