Schooner vs Skiff - What's the difference?
schooner | skiff |
(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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, chapter=6 * 2004 , Reese Palley, The Best of Nautical Quarterly: Volume 1: The Lure of Sail ,
* 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 ().
A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
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, title= Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
(weather) A light wind/rain/snow, etc.
(slang) Used when referring to anyone (typically rednecks and fishermen) who has a degree of intelligence, but believes they are more than they actually are.
As nouns the difference between schooner and skiff
is that schooner is (nautical) a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast while skiff is a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern or skiff can be (weather|nova scotia) a deep blanket of snow covering the ground.As a verb skiff is
to navigate in a skiff.schooner
English
(wikipedia schooner)Noun
(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.
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.skiff
English
(wikipedia skiff)Etymology 1
From (etyl) esquif, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff' s rail, close to the stern.}}