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yaucht

yaucht is the obsolete spelling of yacht.

Meaning of yacht

Noun

yacht (plural yachts)

  1. 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.
    • Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
  2. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
    • “I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…], the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

See all 4 meanings of yacht

Forms of yaucht

pluralyauchts

Questions about yaucht

What is yaucht the obsolete spelling of?
Yaucht is the obsolete spelling of yacht.

Words near yaucht in the dictionary

  1. Yauapery
  2. yauboo
  3. yauboos
  4. Yauch
  5. Yauchs
  6. yaucht
  7. yauchts
  8. Yauco
  9. yaud
  10. yauds
  11. Yauger

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