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Brigantine vs Schooners - What's the difference?

brigantine | schooners |

As nouns the difference between brigantine and schooners

is that brigantine is (nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast or brigantine can be while schooners is .

brigantine

English

(wikipedia brigantine)

Etymology 1

1525, a small rowing vessel, brigandyns'', from (etyl) ''brigandin'', probably from Italian ''brigante'' - skirmisher, pirate, brigand, from Latin ''brigare to fight.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
    • Synonyms
    * hermaphrodite brig (the synonymy is controversial )

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • ----

    schooners

    English

    Noun

    (head)