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ˈraceabout U.S. Naut.
[f. race v.1 + about adv.]
A sloop-rigged racing yacht with a smaller keel and larger sailyards than those of a knockabout (see knock-about, knockabout a. 3 b). Also attrib.
1897Forest & Stream 6 Mar. 194/2 The next size, the ‘raceabout’, or the fin de siècle perversion of the knockabout, promises to be more popular and numerous. 1899Ibid. 25 Feb. 157/1 The yacht will have two rigs, knockabout and raceabout, which can be shifted one for the other in half an hour. 1905St. Nicholas Aug. 865 There were other prizes, of course: the much-coveted silver cup,..pennants for the raceabouts and halfraters, and a first money prize of twenty⁓five dollars for the fishermen's sloops. 1907Forest & Stream 30 Nov. 863/1 The old jib and mainsail sand-bag rig has been replaced by the modern raceabout. 1927E. P. Morris Fore & Aft Rig in Amer. 75 It [sc. the knockabout rig] has been somewhat diverted from its original purpose by being used on small racing boats, which are not knockabouts in the strict sense and have been ironically called ‘race-abouts’. |