flying boat

noun

1. a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.

flying boat

noun

1. a seaplane in which the fuselage consists of a hull that provides buoyancy in the water

Word History and Origins

Origin of flying boat¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Lough Erne was a base for RAF Coastal Command flying boats protecting Allied shipping convoys in the Atlantic.

From BBC

Later it became the world's largest military flying boat station during World War Two.

From BBC

“President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by Boeing Clipper to meet with Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in 1943. On the way home, Roosevelt celebrated his birthday in the flying boat’s dining room.”

From Seattle Times

“I heard a rumbling sound and saw a flying boat, as Thais called it back then,” recalled an animated Mr. Sao, now 87.

From New York Times

Here, after World War II, the quixotic — all right, yes, and the downright weird — aviator/producer/industrialist Howard Hughes built the enormous wooden flying boat that just about everyone but Hughes called the Spruce Goose.

From Los Angeles Times