American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels, generally with smart graceful lines, used for pleasure cruises or racing.
- v. To sail, cruise, or race in a yacht.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel propelled either by sails or by steam, most often light or comparatively small, but sometimes of large size, used for pleasure-trips or for racing, or as a vessel of state to convey persons of distinction by water. There are two distinct types of sailing yacht: the racer with large spars and sails and fine lines, but sacrificing comfort to speed; and the commodious well-proportioned cruising-yacht. Sailing yachts are seldom or never of a more elaborate rig than that of the schooner; but steam-vessels of every class from launches up are common as yachts.
- To sail or cruise in a yacht.
- n. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock (Wikipedia).
- n. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
- v. intransitive To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
- v. To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
- n. an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
- v. travel in a yacht
- Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe ("light, fast-sailing ship"), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) ("hunt") (modern jacht), short for jaghtschip, jageschip ("light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship"), literally, "pursuit ship", compound of jagen ("to hunt, chase") and schip ("ship") (see ship), from Proto-Germanic *jagōnan (cf. West Frisian jeie, German jagen, Swedish jaga), from Proto-Indo-European *yegʰo- (compare Irish éad ("jealousy"), Russian ярый (âryj, "furious"), Albanian gjah ("hunt"), Ancient Greek ζητέω (zētéō, "to search, seek"), Sanskrit यवन (yāvana, "barbarian; agressor"), यत्न (yātna, "zeal")). (Wiktionary)
- Probably obsolete Norwegian jagt, from Middle Low German jacht, short for jachtschip : jagen, to chase (from Old High German jagōn) + schip, ship. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“Now when many individuals hear the term yacht club they see a collection of yacht owners gathering often to talk about their marine experiences.”
“Men stopped wearing hats overnight, and churches may empty in a heartbeat, but a yacht is forever.”
“The yacht is capable of 45 miles an hour with its 4,000 horsepower engine and when the Italians try to make a getaway in their skiff, the Streak streaks for them, "pulsing and vibrating and roaring like a thing alive" until the thieves haul in their oars and surrender.”
“The NEA spent $11,797 to charter a yacht from a Hollywood, Fla., company.”
“She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King of France missed his daughter they brought him tidings of her, saying, “Thy yacht is lost”; and he replied,”
“The folk replied, O King, we have found ten men slain on the sea-shore, and the royal yacht is missing.”
“At the time of her hiring, according to Anders, she asked HP to pay to move her yacht from the East Coast to the West Coast through the Panama Canal.”
“Many people think that was his name because it's piratical, and so it was appropriate that he called his yacht Corsair.”
“After that he called his yacht the _Gloria_, in imitation of her name, and sometimes took the girl out on the sea.”
“The yacht is now lying at anchor in a deep coffee-colored stream, near a picturesque Malay village on stilts, surrounded by very extensive groves of palms.”
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Outlawed words and books, like this.
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.
My Favourite Kind
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
things that are just fun to say
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
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