Schooner - What does it mean?
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(nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
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* 2005 , Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World ,
* 2007 , Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat ,
(Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states ().
* , Fozen Pumps'', 2008, Kees de Hoog (editor), ''Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog ,
* 2004 , Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under ,
* 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , Lonely Planet,
(US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale ().
The difference between schooner and is:
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(en noun)citation, passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.}}
page 181,
- 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.
page xxi,
- In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
page 240,
- 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.
page 67,
- Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
page 94,
- 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.
page 59,
- 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.