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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.

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- Louis Marius Schoon (22 June 1937 – 7 February 1999) was a white anti-apartheid activist of Afrikaner descent. Marius died from lung cancer, after a long...
- Jeanette Eva Schoon (née Curtis; 1949 – 28 June 1984) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She and her daughter, Katryn Schoon, were killed by...
- Edward Schoon (born July 9, 1929) is an American retired politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. John Edward Schoon was born...
- Raïsa Schoon (born 3 October 2001) is a Dutch beach volleyball player. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. Schoon shares the same birthday with...
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- Richard Roland Schoon (born 23 June 1928) is a Singaporean retired field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics...
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- Theodorus Johannes Schoon (31 July 1915 – 14 July 1985) was a Dutch-born New Zealand artist, photographer and carver. Theo Schoon was born at Kebumen,...
- Milton W. Schoon (February 25, 1922 – January 18, 2015) was an American professional basketball player. A 6-foot-7, 230-pound center, Schoon began his...
- Debora Schoon-Kadijk (born 14 April 1969 in Rotterdam, South Holland) is a former professional beach volleyball player from the Netherlands. She twice...