English to English
adjective
- Marked by knocking about or roughness.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Boisterous practical jokes.
Knockabout comedy.
source: WordNet 3.0
- suitable for rough use
A knockabout overcoat.
A knockabout old car.
source: WordNet 3.0
