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yacht

A Dutch jaghtschip was a 'hunting ship' built to chase pirates and smugglers; Scandinavians and Peter the Great's Russia took the ship and its name, and after the Dutch gave one to Charles II in 1660 the English copied it as a rich man's pleasure boat — the sense that then sailed into Spanish, Turkish, Arabic and Japanese.

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