Definition of "yacht club" []

• A club that promotes yachting and boating. (noun)

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• "Carol had said nothing of a large house nearby; only that it lay beyond a yacht club on Center Island, an isthmus crooking its coastline like a scooping hand to form Oyster Bay."
• "Before a landing was made, however, Miss Susie Stevens had suggested numerous plans for picnics, cruises among the islands, meetings for tennis at the yacht club and various other methods by which the days were to be passed."
• "HITCHCOCK - The developer of 625-acre luxury community Harborwalk will ask a bankruptcy court judge today to allow it to obtain $2.5 million in financing to keep its marina and yacht club open and to take measures to keep the lights on as it battles with lender Compass Bank about a"