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Echoon Echon Ech*on", Echoon Ech*oon", pron.
Each one. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Schooner Schooner Schoon"er, n. [D.]
A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or
ale. [U.S.]
Schooner Schooner Schoon"er, n. [See the Note below. Cf. Shun.]
(Naut.)
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.
Tern schooner Tern Tern, a. [L. pl. terni three each, three; akin to tres
three. See Three, and cf. Trine.]
Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three
together.
Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by
three, or having three in each whorl or set.
Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together
from the same axis.
Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.
topsail schooner Schooner Schoon"er, n. [See the Note below. Cf. Shun.]
(Naut.)
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.
Topsail schooner Topsail Top"sail`, n. (Naut.)
In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost
sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed
or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged
vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter,
Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration
in Appendix.
