SCHOONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schooner mean? 

• SCHOONER (noun)
  The noun SCHOONER has 2 senses:

1. a large beer glass

2. sailing vessel used in former times

  Familiarity information: SCHOONER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large beer glass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("schooner" is a kind of...):

drinking glass; glass (a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sailing vessel used in former times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("schooner" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schooner"):

sharpshooter (a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters)

 Context examples 

And you hear that fellow with a frog in his throat—a steam schooner as near as I can judge, crawlin’ in from the Heads against the tide.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was on the summit of one swell when the schooner came stooping over the next.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The grass-walled castle and the white, coppered schooner were very near to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"There was rumor that they went to the South Seas—were lost on a trading schooner in a typhoon, or something like that."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been 'Cutlasses, and die hard!' 'Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick,' said the British captain.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was Hump, cabin-boy on the schooner Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)