(n.) 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.
(n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
Example Sentences:
(1) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
(2) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(3) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
(4) Which are served in two-thirds of a pint schooners (from £3.80).
(5) Heptachlor residues in winter crops were highest in Saia oats > Berseem clover > Haifa clover > Cassia oats > Tetila ryegrass > Schooner barley > Shaftal clover > Hunter river lucerne at the grazing stage.
(6) Argentina's president launched an attack on British colonialism, claiming the islands were "forcibly stripped" from Argentina 180 years ago (the incident in 1833 boiled down to a standoff between two ships, one bigger than the other, and as the Argentinian schooner was manned by a large number of British mercenaries, it decided to back off.
(7) When I was very little I saw it as an 18th-century schooner.
(8) Maybe it’s the warmth of the directors, all in their 30s: Al Parra, ever ready with schooners of tea; Arnaud Nichols, always enthusing about some engineering project; and Alex Motta, whose cheap gourmet canteen feeds mezze to the local forklift drivers.
(9) There is no doubt that a schooner from the Dutch city of Vlaardingen brought the cholera to Bergen.
(10) He bought a schooner in Malta and sailed it across the Atlantic, through the canal up to San Francisco, then across the Pacific, regretfully having to part with it 'for financial reasons'.
(11) During the six-week voyage our antiquated German schooner, the Stahlratte or "Steel Rat", had been continually battered by force nine gales and even seasoned crew members had been violently sick.
(12) The expedition’s schooner, the Fram, built to withstand the crush of ice on the planned drift across the Polar Sea, was by 19 November secured fast in the sea ice as the long nights closed in.
(13) And the level of co-payment we’re suggesting is equivalent to a hamburger and fries, or a schooner of beer; I mean it’s not a great deal, and if we’re talking about say up to $50, $60, $70 a year max for people on low incomes, is that unreasonable?” Wong said she believed most Australians accessed health care only when they needed it and the government should not create a disincentive for visiting a GP.
Trawler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, trawls.
(n.) A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Operated by the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFC), based in Caterham, Surrey, it is one of 34 giant freezer vessels that regularly work the west African coast as part of the Pelagic Freezer Association (PFA) , which represents nine European trawler owners.
(2) In Minato neighbourhood, which was cut off from the centre when a fishing trawler was upended on a bridge, the 500 evacuees sheltering in an elementary school did not get hot food until Saturday night.
(3) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
(4) One large trawler, it is calculated, can catch as much as 250 tonnes of fish a day, roughly what 50 pirogues might catch in a year.
(5) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
(6) The month before Powell was caught, an inquiry into the UK's largest fishing scandal uncovered "serious and organised" criminality by Scottish trawler men and fish processors in an elaborate scam to illegally sell nearly £63m of undeclared fish .
(7) In the period 1986-1988 a prospective study comprising 30 crew members of deep-sea factory-trawlers (altogether 2468 fishermen) and 85 of the merchant navy vessels (total 2906 seafarers).
(8) Ninety percent of the EU's northeast Atlantic deep-sea catch is taken by vessels from just three countries: Spain, Portugal and France, with most of the Spanish and French catch taken by bottom trawlers.
(9) That’s why I want to take my own boat out to spy on them [the trawlers].” The Thai government also admits that a new scheme to register boats as legal and licensed is plagued by corruption and a lack of political willpower.
(10) Earlier, Japanese officials said China had moved drilling equipment to the area, having scrapped scheduled talks over joint exploration in the wake of the trawler incident.
(11) And at this rate we will never find out.” Among the sites worst affected by trawlers is Doggerland, a vast area that was inhabited during the Mesolithic period 8,000 years ago, but has since been inundated by the waters of the North Sea.
(12) Supertrawlers are large freezer-factory fishing trawlers that threaten our unique marine life and fisheries, and the recreational fishing, commercial fishing and tourism industries that rely on these,” the petition said.
(13) Europe took a small step back from the moral abyss today, but it needs to do much more to provide clarity and turn this momentum into lives saved at sea.” The summit was called at short notice in reaction to the deaths of an estimated 800 migrants off the coast of Libya last weekend, drowned when their fishing trawler capsized in the biggest single tragedy in two years of attempts to flee sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for southern Europe .
(14) Relations reached their lowest point in years in 2010, when a Chinese trawler collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels near the islands .
(15) Relevant departments have been complacent or simply constrained by limited capacity to bring procedures up to speed, so even simple procedures like inspecting a vessel to check crewlists, passports or catches, may not take place on board.” CP Foods says that it will cut fishmeal out of its prawnfeed by 2021, but until then it hopes to address trafficking by working with the Thai government to register these problem trawlers.
(16) Until a strong deep-sea fishing regulation is implemented, bottom trawlers are free to engage in an unrestricted "buffalo hunt" that every year reduces hundreds of square kilometres of the vibrant sea-floor to barren wastelands, including 4,000-year-old corals that have been alive since the pyramids were built.
(17) The war has also kept international fishing trawlers away from Yemeni waters, and the fishermen are enjoying the abundance.
(18) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
(19) The very substantial riveted plates of the converted Aberdeen-built trawler had had huge holes torn in them, but the jagged pieces of metal that remained were all bent inwards.
(20) Wen is the most senior Chinese leader to comment on the row, which began earlier this month when a Chinese trawler collided with a Japanese patrol ship near disputed islets – known as the Diaoyu islands in China and Senkaku islands in Japan .