With reference to locomotion by steam-power, and in names of vehicles and vessels propelled by steam, as steam barge, steam bus, steam-ferry, steam…

Applied to vessels, spec. to a particular type of yacht. Hence also, a hydroplane, hydrofoil, hovercraft, or other vessel that has little or no…

vessels of various classes resembling a schooner in build or rig.

A yacht constructed or adapted for cruising, as distinguished from a ‘racer’; also, a motor-vessel designed for pleasure cruises on the sea, or…

A yacht built with a permanent keel instead of a centre-board.

U.S. A shallow yacht-built type of boat used on the coast of Florida.

a yacht built and rigged like a cutter.

a keel of a yacht having a cigar-shaped attachment which in section presents a bulb-like appearance; also elliptical a yacht having such an…

A yacht having a keel instead of a centre-board.

A yacht of forty tons burden.

A small racing yacht, so classed from 1891 to 1896; now called an 18-foot boat. (Also attrib.)

= B. 3.

a one-design yacht or boat (see one-design n. adj.); (also) a person who sails this type of craft.

A sloop-rigged racing yacht similar to a knockabout (knock-about, n. 4), but typically having a smaller keel and larger sail yards.

a forty-foot yacht.

A class of small racing yacht; a yacht of this class.

Sailing (originally U.S.). Frequently with capital initial. A type of sloop-rigged open keelboat designed to be sailed by two people and used for…

term applied to a vessel built so as to cheat the rules for tonnage measurement, esp. a yacht with a ‘dog's-leg’ stern-post, by which its length was…

U.S. A small flat-bottomed racing yacht.

In full tabloid cruiser. A small cruising yacht.

A type or class of racing keelboat, designed to sail with a two- or three-person crew. Frequently attributive.

Originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand. In full maxi boat, maxi yacht. A racing yacht of between 15 and 20 metres in length (the largest…