airboatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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:

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

同意語

• fanboat
• swamp boat

派生語

• airboating
• airboater

Further reading

• airboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia