Definitions for schooners

schooners schoon·er

Spelling: [skoo-ner]
IPA: /ˈsku nər/

Schooners is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in schooners (cehnoorss).

Definitions for schooners

noun

  1. Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
  2. a very tall glass, as for beer.
  3. prairie schooner.

Origin of schooners

1705-15, Americanism; perhaps scoon, variant of dial. scun scud1 (compare dialectal Swedish skunna, Old English scyndan) + -er1

Examples for schooners

The water was now up to my breast, and I knew the schooner must go over.

Over his schooner of beer K. gathered something of the story.

On the way they passed by the schooner Tavern, where they encountered Dean Schmitz and Molly Flaherty.

When we got back to the schooner, we found her lifting her anchors.

The topsail-yard was on the cap, and the schooner now came up into the wind.

As he said she was a schooner, however, I thought it must be one of our own craft, and got her direction from him.

The schooner was wet, and the seas she shipped would put out my fire.

The schooner ahead of us had to cut, and she shifted her berth outside of us.

Of course we were lodged and fed, in waiting for the schooner to come in.

As he spoke there was a sudden soft jar and jerk, then the schooner was still.

Word Value for schooners
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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