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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
2. 2
   a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail wordnet

Etymology

From race + about.

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