topsail schooner

American  

noun

1. a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.

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Etymology

Origin of topsail schooner

First recorded in 1865–70

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topsail schooner

The tiny topsail schooner Pickle leaked and bucked her way past Spanish Finisterre, through Biscay's Bay, past French Finistere, and English Land's End, to Falmouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees.

From Time Magazine Archive

My first memorable encounter with this phenomenon occurred some years back while ascending the Potomac River to Washington D.C., in the topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore II.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coe was the captain and owner of the Peep o' Day topsail schooner, and had been trading about the Group for a matter of eight years.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

Her rig was that of a topsail schooner, and her smoke-stack raked with her masts.

From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Optic, Oliver