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- schooner 1
1
: a typically 2-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with a foremast and a mainmast stepped nearly amidships
2
: a larger-than-usual drinking glass (as for beer)
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Commercial salvage personnel responded following the accident and towed the Grace Bailey to Rockport Harbor where officials will continue their investigation into the schooner’s demasting.
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Jon Haworth, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
The Hickox, meanwhile, was making the opposite journey, from Muskegon to Chicago, loaded down with lumber and towing a packed schooner barge.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Step aboard the classic schooner Freda B to capture views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz and the San Francisco and Sausalito waterfronts.
—Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Nearly 150 years ago, the schooner Trinidad sank in Lake Michigan, roughly ten miles off the coast of Algoma, Wisconsin.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
Most of the schooner's cargo, about 90,000 feet of spruce planks, was washed ashore by the waves.
—CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, arrived by schooner in Boston Harbor Thursday.
—Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad.
—CBS News, 2 Sep. 2023
The wreck of the Tay, a schooner that ran aground during a storm in 1911, was exposed Thursday morning at Sand Beach, after being buried for decades, the Bangor Daily News reported.
—CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
Jon Haworth, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
The Hickox, meanwhile, was making the opposite journey, from Muskegon to Chicago, loaded down with lumber and towing a packed schooner barge.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Step aboard the classic schooner Freda B to capture views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz and the San Francisco and Sausalito waterfronts.
—Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Nearly 150 years ago, the schooner Trinidad sank in Lake Michigan, roughly ten miles off the coast of Algoma, Wisconsin.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
Most of the schooner's cargo, about 90,000 feet of spruce planks, was washed ashore by the waves.
—CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, arrived by schooner in Boston Harbor Thursday.
—Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad.
—CBS News, 2 Sep. 2023
The wreck of the Tay, a schooner that ran aground during a storm in 1911, was exposed Thursday morning at Sand Beach, after being buried for decades, the Bangor Daily News reported.
—CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooner. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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schooner
noun
schoo·ner
ˈskü-nər 
1
: a ship with a fore-and-aft rig and two or more masts
2
: a large tall glass (as for beer)
3
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