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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sharp·ie /ˈʃɑrpi/
 帆船的一種

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sharp·ie n. Naut. A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated. [Local, U.S.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sharpie
      n 1: an alert and energetic person [syn: eager beaver, busy
            bee, live wire, sharpy]
      2: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
         [syn: swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer,
          grifter, sharper, sharpy]
      3: a long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a
         triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic
         coast of the United States