raceabout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

Word forms

raceabout raceabouts

Etymology

From race + about.

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