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- noun Plural form of
schooner .
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Examples
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“To gam,” among the sealing-schooners, is a substitute for the verbs “to visit,” “to gossip.”
Chapter 25 2010
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Sometimes the schooners were a week or ten days on the way.
History of New Brunswick Peter Fisher 1815
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Chuckwagons are covered wagons, also known as schooners, pulled by horses used by pioneers in the 1800's are they travel across the prairie.
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And even though sloops were supposed to be easier to sail than multimasted vessels such as schooners and square-riggers, gargantuan sails represented weapons when they came whipping across the deck.
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John Lavin After 10 "schooners" or pints (depending on the pub), there will be some matters for which your faithful scribe should be embarrassed.
City Walk: Sydney 2008
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Behind the great swaying "schooners" walk the men with shouldered rifles, and a troup of mounted men have just galloped up to bid adieu to the departing emigrants.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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"I wish he could see less remarkable things, such as schooners, sir," said Hozier.
The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895
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The "schooners," as these wagons were called, were everywhere to be seen on the great prairie sea.
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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While I'm doing that, I do 200 bicep curls using special liquid-filled training weights I call "schooners".
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"schooners," that they might be as comfortable as possible, and read, sleep, or, as the women often did, sew and knit, or play games.
chained_bear commented on the word schooners
In addition to four named ships listed as "belonging to the army" (British army) that were captured at Yorktown, also captured were "a considerable number of small sloops and schooners, and 12 or 15 galleys" as well as "private vessels."
October 29, 2007