English to afrikaans meaning of

'n skoener is 'n seilskip met twee of meer maste, tipies met 'n voormas korter as die hoofmas en 'n hoofmas korter as 'n mizzenmas. Dit het gewoonlik 'n voor-en-agtertuig op alle maste. Skoenbote is in die 18de en 19de eeue algemeen vir visvang en kushandel gebruik. In moderne tye word hulle hoofsaaklik vir plesiervaarte en wedrenne gebruik.

Sentence Examples

  1. Around the schooner lay a number of small fishing-boats belonging to the fishermen of the neighboring village, like humble subjects awaiting orders from their queen.
  2. It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
  3. The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
  4. The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.
  5. Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed earlier in the evening.
  6. The wind suddenly shifted to the north-east, and the remnant of the sea-fog melted in the blast and then, mirabile dictu, between the piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed, swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and gained the safety of the harbour.