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schooner
English
Etymology
Probably from English scoon, and Dutch schoener (“schooner”), further etymology is uncertain, compare schoon (“clean”) and shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sku?n?(?)/
- Rhymes: -u?n?(?)
Noun
schooner (plural schooners)
- (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
- Synonym: goelette
- (Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
- (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).
- (historical) A covered wagon used by emigrants.
Usage notes
- (sailing ship): Variants exist, such as with additional square sails on the fore topmast. Compare ketch and yawl which have a main and a mizzen mast.
- (size of glass): A schooner is one of the larger measures, except in South Australia, where it is smaller. See Beer in Australia: Beer glasses for details.
Translations
Anagrams
- coehorns
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cutter
English
Etymology
cut +? -er
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Noun
cutter (plural cutters)
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- 1982, The Movies (page 288)
- The intervening years, however, were spent as a cutter. He was, indeed, one of the best film editors in the business, winning an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947).
- 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- 1982, The Movies (page 288)
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- Synonym: slasher
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- Coordinate terms: canner, darkcutter
- 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry (page 89)
- Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]
- (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
- So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
- 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)
- He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
- Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
- (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [1]:
- Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow.
- 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [1]:
Derived terms
- cane cutter
- copy cutter
- glass cutter
- wire cutters
- revenue cutter
Translations
French
Noun
cutter m (plural cutters)
- cutter, boxcutter, utility knife, Stanley knife
- (nautical) cutter (vessel)
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