yacht

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  1. noun Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels, generally with smart graceful lines, used for pleasure cruises or racing.
  2. intransitive verb To sail, cruise, or race in a yacht.

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  • They moved him, found it, picked it up, never imagining it had not been there all the time And they inked Doc's thumb, jammed it down in the place for a signature, and backed away, well pleased with themselves LATER a messenger left the boat in the dinghy--the yacht was anchored about twoscore yards offshore--and landed on the river bank. —  055 - The Feathered Octopus
  • He owned properties all over the world, but neither they nor his yacht were the right environment for a pair of nine-year-olds. —  MasterofPleasure
  • My father's special sub-sea yacht was there—cost him half a million dollars! —  Pohl, Frederik ; Williamson, Jack - [Undersea 03] - Undersea City [MNQ]
  • At once he declared that the yacht was at my service for such work as that without money: he would be too glad to lend it to me: it was horrible that such a man as Wilde should be treated as a common criminal. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 1
  • On our starting the yacht was about four miles ahead of us, steering a course that would take her straight to Sebastopol. —  Sketches From My Life
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  1. Probably obsolete Norwegian jagt, from Middle Low German jacht, short for jachtschip : jagen, to chase (from Old High German jagōn) + schip, ship.

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  1. Formerly also yatcht, yatch (cf. French yacht, from English); = German jacht, from Middle Dutch jacht, Dutch jagt, a yacht, literally a chase, hunting (= Old High German *jagōt, Middle High German jagāt, German jagd, chase, hunting), from jagen = Old High German jagōn, Middle High German G. jagen, hunt.
  2. from yacht, n.
 

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