Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boatlike vehicle set on sharp runners, used for sailing on ice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong boat, propelled by steam, used to break a channel through ice.
- noun A triangular or boat-shaped frame mounted on runners, and fitted with a mast, sails, etc., for sailing on ice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation; an icebreaker.
- noun a sailing craft with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice; it is usually propelled by a sail, and sometimes by an engine-powered propeller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ice yacht . - noun An
icebreaker ; a ship that breaks through ice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice
- noun a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation
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Examples
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In northern Maine, a paper in New Brunswick reported, “Canadian liquor in quantities from one gallon to a truckload is being hidden in the northern woods and distributed by automobile, sled and iceboat, on snowshoes and on skis.”
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In northern Maine, a paper in New Brunswick reported, “Canadian liquor in quantities from one gallon to a truckload is being hidden in the northern woods and distributed by automobile, sled and iceboat, on snowshoes and on skis.”
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In northern Maine, a paper in New Brunswick reported, "Canadian liquor in quantities from one gallon to a truckload is being hidden in the northern woods and distributed by automobile, sled and iceboat, on snowshoes and on skis."
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John Cameron Swayze, here, for Timex stopwatches… we attached this stopwatch to the blades on this lightning fast iceboat, and raced around the lake.
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Together they give wonderful looks at the natural beauty of Mars, including fossil climbing, mountain climbing, and iceboat sailing.
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Together they give wonderful looks at the natural beauty of Mars, including fossil climbing, mountain climbing, and iceboat sailing.
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The thunderous whump of the lone remaining helicopter echoed over the frozen terrain as it circled to land near the iceboat.
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She worked the foot pedals and expertly brought her iceboat around and braked the craft the makeshift parking lot.
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There was even an iceboat, a catamaran resting on stainless-steel runners.
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She turned her back on Tom and the others and strode to the iceboat.
reesetee commented on the word iceboat
A boat resembling a sailboat but fitted with skis or runners and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water.
August 2, 2007