schooner n Cp DAE ~ 1 (1716-); PARTRIDGE schooner-rigged 'destitute.'
Comb schooner boat: small decked vessel, rigged fore-and-aft like a schooner.
[1766] 1971 BANKS 149 I take this opportunity of setting down the dimensions of a schooner Boat we had with us for a tender as it appears to me the most rational Plan of a Pleasure boat I have met with our People all agreeing that when her hatches were shut down it was scarcely in the Power of wind or water to sink she swimming upon the surface like a corkd bottle her schooner sails also allowing her to be workd by fewer hands than any other Kind she had 42 feet Keel 12 feet Beam & was 5 ½ feet Deep Pink stern deckd flush fore & aft... She Carried mainsail Foresail Fore stay sail & Gib with a square sail to go before the wind. [1829] P 2651 -67 [Slade papers] Thursday 24th Sept., 1829,. Mr Graham in his Schooner Boat from New Harbour and off for St John's this afternoon.
schooner-rigged: possessing only the clothes one stands in (P 85-66).
