schooner : Idioms & Phrases

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prairie schooner

  • noun a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century
    Conestoga wagon; covered wagon; prairie wagon; Conestoga.
WordNet

Tern schooner

  • (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.
Webster 1913

Topsail schooner

  • . (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.
Webster 1913