two-sticker

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small two-masted fishing schooner, sometimes equipped with outriggers.

Quotations

1895

. . . the gashers [were] dashing in and out among the punts and jacks (stoutly built two-stickers larger than gashers).

1931

Our "two-sticker with a kicker" lies in Sandy Bay harbour, Nova Scotia, outward bound for Labrador, that terra incognito even to the Maritimers.