raceabout

HYPHEN

race=a=bout

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun raceabout has 1 sense

raceabout(n = noun.artifact) - a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail;

is a kind of

sloop

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CIDE DICTIONARY

raceabout, n.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]