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

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

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

They all agreed that the sail in sight was a square topsail schooner standing off the land.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor

The thickness to leeward had by this time cleared away, and the two strange sail down there were now clearly visible, the one as a topsail schooner, and the other as a brig.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.