SCHOONER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sailing vessel used in former times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("schooner" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schooner"):

sharpshooter (a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large beer glass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("schooner" is a kind of...):

drinking glass; glass (a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking)

Credits

Context examples:

He would buy a schooner—one of those yacht- like, coppered crafts that sailed like witches—and go trading copra and pearling among the islands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though January had already come, months would have to elapse before any trading schooner was even likely to put into the bay.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed earlier in the evening.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another cursed the Admiralty Courts, where a prize goes in as a full-rigged ship and comes out as a schooner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same time, the schooner began to turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across the current.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Built directly in the eyes of the schooner, it was of the shape of a triangle, along the three sides of which stood the bunks, in double-tier, twelve of them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Also he could collect the stories and the poems into books, and make sure of the valley and the bay and the schooner.