airboater

English

Etymology

From airboat +‎ -er.

Noun

airboater (plural airboaters)

1. A person who participated in the activity of airboating.
   • 1991, Big Cypress National Preserve General Management Plan (GMP): Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, page 463:

     While I have not done any study, from my personal experience as an airboater and as an aeronautical engineer, I do not believe that it is possible to meet the proposed noise limitations with an air boat propeller blade, regardless of the power source.

   • 2012, Tom Shirley, Everglade Patrole, University Press of Florida, page ??:

     After getting up to track a suspicious airboater, I went back to my camp, climbed back into my hammock, put another log on the fire, and slept the rest of the night (what was left of it!).

   • 2018, Max McCoy, Elevations: a personal exploration of the Arkansas River, The University Press of Kansas, page 295:

     We paddled on, and by the time we got the boats hauled up on the bar, a few hundred yards down, the airboater had fired up his motor and roared off.