schooner

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Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

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But, of course, David and his wife, Toni Jo, aren’t moving west with a prairie schooner full of supplies. Source: Internet

But best of all might be climbing aboard the fully staffed Alexa J, a 38-meter schooner yacht with just one opulent cabin. Source: Internet

A schooner may have any number of masts provided the second from the front is the tallest (called the "main mast"). Source: Internet

Also at Long Wharf pier is the Quinnipiack schooner, offering sailing cruises of the harbor area throughout the summer. Source: Internet

End of Campeche In 1821, the schooner USS was sent to Galveston to remove Lafitte from the Gulf. Source: Internet

Bligh's personal logbook of the voyage of the schooner Resource, which carried the launch survivors from Coupang, Timor, to Batavia, Java. Source: Internet

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