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(1):

(n.) A knockabout performer or performance.

(2):

(n.) A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.

(3):

(a.) Marked by knocking about or roughness.

(4):

(a.) Of noisy and violent character.

(5):

(a.) Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.

(6):

(a.) That does odd jobs; - said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.

(7):

(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 called a raceabout.