schooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schooners
Etymology: Attested ca. 1715, of uncertain origin. Said to be derived from dialectal scoon (“to skim over water”). Compare also shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).
Senses: examples: text: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: Designed by Frank Payne's renowned Boston design office, and built in 1928 of longleaf yellow pine, this 82-footer has been a racing schooner — a staysail schooner — since the heyday of Class-A ocean racing in schooners during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
ref: 2004, Reese Palley, The Best of Nautical Quarterly: Volume 1: The Lure of Sail, page 181:
text: In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
ref: 2005, Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World, page xxi:
text: Unfortunately, anyone looking for a schooner today has limited choices. In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled schooners are harder to come by.
ref: 2007, Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat, page 240:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: goelette
glosses: A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
examples: text: Boycott any pub that bans work clothes, allows customers to reserve tables or only sells beer in schooners. That is less a pub, more a private members’ club.
ref: 2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
examples: text: Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
ref: a. 1964, Arthur Upfield, “Fozen Pumps”, in Kees de Hoog, editor, Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog, published 2008, page 67:
text: At first I refused, but ten schooners later I was ready to take on Jaws with a butterknife[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 193:
text: And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.
ref: 2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 94:
text: For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA′s impressive wine.
ref: 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 59:
glosses: A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
glosses: A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).
glosses: A covered wagon used by emigrants.
Derived terms: prairie schooner
schooner on the rocks