Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steamboat fitted with steam-pumps, hose, and other appliances for extinguishing fires: used along river-fronts to protect the shipping and docks.
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Examples
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"Save in the white man's fire-boat which is of iron and is bigger than twenty steamboats on the Yukon," said Ebbits.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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"Yet on the salt lake had he seen the fire-boat of iron that did not sink," cried out Zilla the irrepressible.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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"But the white man would not let him cross the salt lake in the fire-boat, and he returned to sit by the fire and hunger for the country under the sun where there is no snow. '"
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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He put that in a boat named the Pyroscaphe (from the Greek for fire-boat).
July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat 2008
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He compared the "fire-boat" with the size of his _hnau_, he compared it with a river-steamer which now went puffing past, he described it with the greatest minuteness, for he had lain beside it at Bhamo for three days on the trip before last.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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"There's no fire-boat up here -- there ought to be!"
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Laura Lee Hope
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"Do you know where the 'fire-boat' had been?" he asked.
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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"When I am at Prome two weeks ago, the 'fire-boat' of U Saw pass me, and go up the river."
Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore
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"There's no fire-boat up here -- there ought to be!"
The outdoor girls at Rainbow Lake: or, the Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem 1913
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