Schooner vs Yacht - What's the difference?
schooner | yacht |
(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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(Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states ().
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(US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale ().
A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
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Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
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Yacht is a hyponym of schooner.
As nouns the difference between schooner and yacht
is that 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 while yacht is a slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.As a verb yacht is
to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.schooner
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(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.
