schooner
noun
any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts.
schooners
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pluralof schooner.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Thousands of schooners, or sailing ships, and hundreds of steamers hauled cargo and passengers between bustling port cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Time Out credited the "inexpensive Neapolitan pizzas and beer schooners" at Paesano as one of the highlights on the road.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022
Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
Make your way to Discovery Pier for the noon departure of the tall ship Manitou, a replica of cargo schooners that once sailed the Eastern Seaboard.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
I looked at his hands and feet The skin was alligatored and cracked, tough from age and walking barefoot on the hot decks of schooners and freighters.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
