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Yachtsman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A man who sails a yacht.

    "1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch Book published together with The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, New York: Caxton, Chapter 10, p. 379, […] and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives."

  2. 2
    a male person who owns or sails a yacht wordnet

Etymology

From yacht + -s- + -man.

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