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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCHOON'ER, n. A vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore- sail are suspended by gaffs, like a sloop's main-sail, and stretched below by booms.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1716 1. a typically 2-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with a foremast and a mainmast stepped nearly amidships 2. a larger-than-usual drinking glass (as for beer)

Britannica Concise

Sailing ship rigged with fore-and-aft sails on its two or more masts. Though apparently developed from a 17th-cent. Dutch design, the first genuine schooner was built in the Amer. colonies, probably at Gloucester, Mass., in 1713, by Andrew Robinson. Compared to square-rigged ships, they were ideal for coastal sailing; they handled better in the varying coastal winds, had shallower drafts for shallow waters, and required a smaller crew in proportion to their size. By the end of the century, they were the most important N. Amer. ship, used for the coastal trade and for fishing. After 1800 they became popular in Europe and around the world. Clipper ships married the schooner design to that of the old three-masted merchantman.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a fore-and-aft rigged ship with two or more masts, the foremast being smaller than the other masts. 2 a Brit. a measure or glass for esp. sherry. b US & Austral. a tall beer-glass. 3 US hist. = prairie schooner. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. uncert.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Schooner Schoon"er, n. [D.] A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Schooner Schoon"er, n. [See the Note below. Cf. Shun.] (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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(schooners) 1. A schooner is a medium-sized sailing ship. N-COUNT 2. A schooner is a large glass used for drinking sherry. (BRIT) N-COUNT 3. A schooner is a tall glass for beer. (AM) N-COUNT