airboat

English

Etymology

From air +‎ boat.

Noun

airboat (plural airboats)

1. A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water.
   • 2000, Jim Huffstodt, Everglades Lawmen: True Stories of Danger and Adventure in the Glades, Pineapple Press Inc, →ISBN, page 74:

     No seats were used yet and the pilot of the airboat stood by the engine and operated the throttle manually. Later, a stick control similar to that used in small aircraft was attached to the rudder ropes.

   • 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In keeping with that mission, the law called for the use of airboats in the national park to be phased out.

Synonyms

• fanboat
• swamp boat

Derived terms

• airboating
• airboater

Translations

flat-bottomed boat driven by an air propeller

• French: hydroglisseur (fr) m
• German: Sumpfboot n
• Portuguese: aerobarco (pt) m
• Spanish: hidrodeslizador m

Further reading

• airboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia