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airboat
[ air-boht ]
noun
- Also called swamp boat. a small open boat having a very shallow draft and driven by a caged airplane propeller mounted above the rear transom, capable of traveling at relatively high speeds through shallow water, swamps, etc.
verb (used without object)
- to go or travel in an airboat.
airboat
/ ˈɛəˌbəʊt /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of airboat1
1865–70, for an earlier sense; air(craft) + boat
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Example Sentences
When hiding from the second airboat, he disturbed a kelit in the thick brush growing beside the road.
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It was a rear cabin in a large airboat, luxuriously furnished with reclining seats and an inlaid table.
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It was an air-view of the city of Zurb—taken, the high priest explained, by infrared light from an airboat over the city at night.
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The pickup seemed to be pointed downward from the bow of an airboat circling at about ten thousand feet.
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"Well, let's see what we can find in the way of a big airboat, or a small ship," Conn said.
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