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: 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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Its story began in 1965, when a Texas oil executive named Johnno Jackson and his wife, Helen, were sailing the South Pacific on their schooner, the New Moon.
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel.
—CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
On the morning of September 30, 1893, a 130-foot schooner called the Margaret A. Muir was sailing across Lake Michigan when a storm rolled in.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The space, sitting a few steps below street level, is narrow and near-windowless; its low ceilings, tight quarters, and garish colors give an impression less of the lemon-scented hillsides of Sicily than of being stuck below deck on a new-money schooner.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel.
—CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
On the morning of September 30, 1893, a 130-foot schooner called the Margaret A. Muir was sailing across Lake Michigan when a storm rolled in.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
The space, sitting a few steps below street level, is narrow and near-windowless; its low ceilings, tight quarters, and garish colors give an impression less of the lemon-scented hillsides of Sicily than of being stuck below deck on a new-money schooner.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooner. Accessed 1 Dec. 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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