tern schooner

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a three-masted schooner, often used for fishing in former times.

Quotations

1923

The Parks are a substantial, sea-faring clan, fishermen, masters of tern schooners, owners of large comfortable houses.

1954

The story of . . . Rob Currie, who had sailed his tern schooner down the Channel, long and long ago. . . .