jagtn.
/jakt/ In Scandinavia, a small single-masted coastal vessel, rigged either with square sails or as a cutter or sloop.
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1861 J. Lamont Seasons with Sea-horses ii. 22 We saw two small vessels, which we made out to be a brig and a sloop, or ‘jagt’, at some distance amongst the ice.
1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail iii. 44 Square-rigged Nordland jaegts which formerly were so characteristic a feature of the Norwegian coastline.
1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail iii. 51 The old Nordland ‘jaegt’ which formerly did so much of the coast-wise trade of Norway.
1925 A. Moore Last Days Mast & Sail vi. 181 Amundsen's ship, the Gjoa, in which he made the North-West Passage, was described in the English papers as a sloop, and she was one according to the old definition; but in the list of the Bureau Veritas for 1907 she is called a Jagt.
1971 Mariner's Mirror 57 152 In Schleswig-Holstein the Jachten doubtless were of the classical Danish jagt design in hull and rig; carvel-built keel craft with transom stern and outside rudder, convex stem, and pole-masted gaff sloop rig.
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