Definition of "topsail schooner" []

• A schooner carrying two or more square topsails on its foremast. (noun)

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• "While another 'lion' of those parts that met our view was a topsail schooner lying in the river at the lower fort, which made occasional trips into Great Lake Winnepeg of the North, a hundred miles below."
• "A topsail schooner in sight, between Ambrym and Paama ” one of those kidnapping vessels."