airboat

[ air-boht ]

noun

1. 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)

1. to go or travel in an airboat.

airboat

/ ˈɛəˌbəʊt /

noun

1. another name for swamp boat

Word History and Origins

Origin of airboat¹

1865–70, for an earlier sense; air(craft) + boat

Example Sentences

Some airboat tour companies will even let you hold a small dog in a carrying case between your legs, if you want to go on a proper adventure.

From Outside Online

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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