Crossword clues for motorboat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
motorboat \motorboat\ n. a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine driving propellers immersed in the water.
Syn: powerboat.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one. vb. (context slang English) To place one's head between a woman's breasts and make the sound of a motorboat with one's lips whilst moving the head from side to side.
WordNet
n. a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine [syn: powerboat]
Wikipedia
A motorboat, speedboat, or powerboat is a boat which is powered by an engine. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit.
An inboard-outboard contains a hybrid of a powerplant and an outboard, where the internal combustion engine is installed inside the boat, and the gearbox and propeller are outside.
There are two configurations of an inboard, V-drive and direct drive. A direct drive has the powerplant mounted near the middle of the boat with the propeller shaft straight out the back, where a V-drive has the powerplant mounted in the back of the boat facing backwards having the shaft go towards the front of the boat then making a V towards the rear. The V-drive has become increasingly popular due to wakeboarding and wakesurfing.
Motorboats vary greatly in size and configuration, from the four-meter, open center console type to the luxury mega- yachts capable of crossing an ocean.
Usage examples of "motorboat".
There were rotors and loud planes motorboating in the gray sky outside, but it was always quiet in the humid heat of this garden.
Occasionally the waterway widened and we saw stately, if clumsy, wooden junks competing with all manner of rivercraft for right of way-everything from bamboo rafts to rusty packet boats, loud motorboats scooting by graceful crafts that looked for all the world like Venetian gondolas.
And if curses could sink anything, all these newfangled motorboats would be on the bottom of the canal.
The roar of a motorboat was funnelled along the little calk, and receded.
They were very much like the aquaplanes commonly towed behind motorboats, but much cruder, and designed to go under rather than remain on the surface.
We can maneuver the pirogue into some back bayous that aren't accessible by motorboat.
Fast motorboats, used for transporting workers, buzzed between the floating supply sheds and the work sites.
When we get tired of the motorboats we can loaf around Cabin Island.
On the contrary, she had taken the one course open to her and had deliberately sought out the shal lows where she could quite literally catch her breath, free from the harassment of the motorboats.
The humpback motorboated toward the bow, its knobby face riding on top of the water.
As usual, there was a line, which the DCI navigated like the Queen Mary sailing through a flotilla of motorboats.
Frank and Joe mulled over this information while Ted prepared to leave in his own small outboard motorboat.
He left the Pontiac in the driveway, looked through one of the windows in the garage door, and saw a fairly large outboard motorboat in there, on a wheeled carrier.
Instantly the engine died, and Frank stood up just as Joe made another sharp turn to miss hitting a small outboard motorboat that had wandered across their path.
In the water, rocked by the waves, are three police officers in an outboard motorboat marked HAMMOND POLICE DEPT.