yacht
IPA: jˈɑt
noun
- 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.
- Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
verb
- (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
Examples of "yacht" in Sentences
- Caffari was the skipper of the yacht.
- The yacht was damaged below the waterline.
- The yacht was an auxiliary of the coast guard.
- The ship flew the pennant of the New York Yacht Club.
- A yacht foresail or mainsail support and change over device.
- The Dutch yacht is the fore runner of the Thames sailing barge.
- Eighteen yachts answered the starting gun of the first regatta.
- Model yachting is the pastime of building and racing model yachts.
- He was the founder of industrial yacht building in the Netherlands.