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English to English adjective
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Marked by knocking about or roughness. |  | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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full of rough and exuberant animal spirits |  | Example: boisterous practical jokes knockabout comedy
source: wordnet30
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suitable for rough use |  | Example: a knockabout overcoat a knockabout old car
source: wordnet30
noun
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a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit |  | source: wordnet30
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A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty- five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout. |  | source: webster1913
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