schooner

noun, fore-and-aft rigged ship with two or more masts, the foremast being smaller than the other masts (COD); also ‘sailing schooner’ as below

“It’s quite deep. Deep enough for the schooners, anyway.”

“There’s a big dock, and the schooners used to come in and pick up the cheese, take them to Chicago.”

“We were sort of water people. My father, his father was a captain. They lived in the Village here when he was a kid. And he was on the freighters, his father. And my father sailed on a schooner for a little while.”

“There was schooners tied up in Kingston Harbour, and they had the johnboats or jolly boats, whatever you wanna call them, tied behind. They used to tow behind the schooners.”

“Nine Mile up here, when the old schooners used to come in, she had a three second light flash every thirty seconds.”

“I’m sure that’s where these swords came from. They’re likely from that old schooner. Maybe laying in it, may have been hung up, maybe, in the old schooner.”

“Grandpa sailed on the sailing schooners.”

“There was a boat there. We found the boat after. There was a steering wheel. It must have been about eight feet high. Great big monster of a steering wheel. I suppose it was a brass steering wheel off one of those old sailing schooners.”