Associations to the word «Raceabout»
Noun
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Wiktionary
RACEABOUT, noun. (nautical) A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
Dictionary definition
RACEABOUT, noun. A small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.