schoonv.
/skuːn/ rare.
1. intransitive. To sail or skim over the water, esp. in the manner of a schooner.With quot. 1836 cf. etymological note s.v. schooner n.1
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > glide
glideOE
lapse1832
schoon1836
1836 J. R. Newhall Essex Memorial 100 Capt. R[obinson] had constructed a vessel which he masted and rigged in the manner that schooners at this day are, and on her going off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out, ‘O how she scoons!’ Robinson instantly replied, ‘A schooner let her be.’
1937 O. Nash in New Yorker 13 Feb. 20/2 Where the schooner schoons, I schoon.
2. transitive. To run or glance (one's mind) over (something).
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > think or have in mind [verb (transitive)] > review rapidly
to run over1710
schoon1959
1959 [see schooning n. at Derivatives].
Derivatives
ˈschooning n.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > thinking over
schooning1959
1959 I. Jefferies Thirteen Days ix. 115 I spent my time schooning my mind over the calculations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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