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Schooner vs Clipper - What's the difference?

schooner | clipper |

In nautical terms the difference between clipper and schooner

is that clipper is any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem while schooner is a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

As nouns the difference between clipper and schooner

is that clipper is anything that clips while schooner is a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

schooner

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=6 citation , passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.}}
  • * 2004 , Reese Palley, The Best of Nautical Quarterly: Volume 1: The Lure of Sail , 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.
  • * 2005 , Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World , page xxi,
  • In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
  • * 2007 , Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat , 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.
  • (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 , page 67,
  • Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
  • * 2004 , Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under , 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.
  • * 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , Lonely Planet, 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.
  • (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale ().
  • Usage notes

    * (sailing ship) Variants exist, such as with additional square sails on the fore topmast. Compare ketch and yawl which have a main and a mizzen mast. * (size of glass) A schooner is one of the larger measures, except in South Australia, where it is smaller. See for details.

    clipper

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia clipper) (en noun)
  • Anything that clips.
  • * 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
  • Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  • Something that moves swiftly; especially:
  • # (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
  • # (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  • (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
  • Derived terms

    * (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipper

    See also

    * Clipper chip

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