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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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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.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
Site of 1893 shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible storm in 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 July 2024
In 2010, underwater archaeologists found a schooner loaded with Champagne off the coast of Finland—and a few years later, a biochemist tasted some in the name of science.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
Storms here are wild shows of energy, fueled by the infamous and annihilating north wind that can bring with it fleets of cumulus clouds that race like schooners across a purple-streaked sky.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
Site of 1893 shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible storm in 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 July 2024
In 2010, underwater archaeologists found a schooner loaded with Champagne off the coast of Finland—and a few years later, a biochemist tasted some in the name of science.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
Storms here are wild shows of energy, fueled by the infamous and annihilating north wind that can bring with it fleets of cumulus clouds that race like schooners across a purple-streaked sky.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
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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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