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   yacht

   /jɒt/

   noun

   • 1. a medium-sized sailing boat equipped for cruising or racing.
   • ▪ a powered boat equipped for cruising: "an eighty-five-foot diesel yacht"

   verb

   • 1. race or cruise in a yacht.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from early modern Dutch jaghte, from jaghtschip ‘fast pirate ship’, from jag(h)t ‘hunting’ + schip ‘ship’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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