(a) a large flat-bottomed sharp-ended cargo boat, formerly used esp. on the Great Lakes and the Missouri; (b) a schooner-rigged boat formerly used…

A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, n.1, ballyhoo…

(a) U.S. a short-masted vessel designed to be towed; (b) a flat-bottomed vessel rigged as a topsail schooner.

Newfoundland. A small, fore-and-aft rigged fishing boat similar to a schooner, typically having a rounded bow and two masts. Also (and now chiefly)…

vessels of various classes resembling a schooner in build or rig.

A type of sailing boat used mainly for oyster fishing in the Chesapeake Bay area, typically having a centreboard and two masts. Cf. buckeye, n. 4.

a sailing vessel similar to a schooner (schooner, n.1 1a) but rigged slightly differently; esp. a three-masted vessel which is square-rigged on the…

A type of canoe or schooner (see quots.).

(a) a man who makes or sells butter; †(b) Nautical a topsail schooner whose topgallant yard is raised and lowered by halyards as required, rather…

a variety of two-masted schooner.

U.S. regional (Chesapeake Bay). A type of narrow schooner having three masts of an equal height, a flat bottom, and no topsails.

Used attributively in Tancook whaler, a double-ended schooner, about 45 feet long of a type formerly built on Tancook. Also Tancook schooner.

Canadian. A type of boat, originally a small schooner (cf. sense 1), in later use a flat-bottomed motor-driven vessel, used for carrying freight on…