1) Boisterous 2) Criticize a prizefight 3) Do nothing 4) Go from pillar to post 5) Loaf 6) Pan the boxing match 7) Spirited 8) Suitable for rough use 1) Rugged 2) Sloop 3) Spirited 
• (n.) A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs. • (a.) Of noisy and violent character. • (n.) 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 c...
Knock'a·bout` noun 1. (Nautical) 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...
A type of schooner without a bowsprit.
[adj] - suitable for rough use 2. [n] - a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
adjective suitable for rough use; `a knockabout overcoat`; `a knockabout old car`
any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop. · something designed or suitable for rough or casual use, as a sturdy jacket, a secondhand car, etc. · a slapstick comedian or comedy. · an itinerant farm hand or ranch hand; a...