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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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In 1921, the schooner Rosa Belle left Milwaukee heading for Chicago with 11 passengers.
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Further investigations revealed the mysterious vessel had a boxy shape, with a bow that looked similar to those found on Great Lakes scow schooners.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Further investigations revealed the mysterious vessel had a boxy shape, with a bow that looked similar to those found on Great Lakes scow schooners.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for schooner
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooner. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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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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