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A speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds
Answer for the clue "A speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds ", 10 letters:
hydroplane
Alternative clues for the word hydroplane
Word definitions for hydroplane in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. glide on the water in a hydroplane [syn: seaplane ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English): A specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing. 2 A hydrofoil 3 A seaplane 4 The wing of a submarine, used to help control depth. vb. To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hydroplaning and hydroplane may refer to: Aquaplaning or hydroplaning which is also known as a loss of steering or braking control when a layer of water prevents direct contact between tires and the road, runway, or other surface. Planing (sailing) , a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1908, "to skim the surface of water by use of hydroplanes," from hydroplane (n.). Meaning "skid on a thin layer of water" (especially of automobile tires) first recorded 1962, properly aquaplane (itself from 1961 in this sense). Related: Hydroplaned ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydroplane \Hy"dro*plane\, v. i. Of a boat, to move through water while supported by hydroplanes[3] (see hydroplane[3] , above). to move through a body of water supported by the hydrodynamic forces on a surface, similar in principle to a hydroplane[3] ; ...
Usage examples of hydroplane.
Kirk spent the morning at his club, Sutro Selestial Baths, where he rowed several kilometers in the hydroplane, boxed with a machine set at intermediate level, and relaxed in the steamy, invigorating Mercury Room.
Curiously, there was little to indicate that he spent most of his working days on or under the sea, except for a primitive painting of a clipper ship and a few other sailing vessels, a photo of his catboat under full sail and a glass-encased model of his racing hydroplane.
Sarah dropped the wallet on the passenger seat and tightened her grip on the wheel as her car hydroplaned slightly around a bend in the road.
As well as in some of the suburbs, causing multiple pileups as vehicles hydroplaned and trucks jackknifed on the expressway.
They skidded to a halt, one of them literally so as he fell flat on his ass and hydroplaned several yards down the hallway.
The vehicle began hydroplaning, and just as I was sure it was going to get stuck again, it suddenly straightened out and kept moving.
In addition to forward hydroplanes and internal watertight doors, Dupuy de Lome had given her a double hull, compressed air ballast, trim tanks, and electric power—everything nineteenth-century science could offer.
For the next test dive, Beau planned to have Bosun's steady hands on the hydroplanes, and use Jules Verne only as a technical advisor.
His firm grip on the hydroplanes was vastly superior to Jules Verne's palsied enthusiasm.
The repairs were crude, but sufficient to prevent further damage, and to make the minimal necessary use of rudder and hydroplanes now possible.
The hull around the propeller and even forward of the rudder and hydroplanes was scarred and pocked and buckled by the effect of the whiplash action of the flailing steel cables as they were tightened and enmeshed by the turning of the propeller.
The rudder and the hydroplanes had been patched with a skin of metal, or their plates twisted back into shape and form by use of the hammer, the rivet-gun, the welding and cutting torches.
The pen contained the torpedo tubes, the forward hatch, the forward hydroplanes, then the fin itself.
There were a number of scarred and buckled hull plates, but the propeller possessed new blades, the rudder fin and the hydroplanes gleamed with new metal.
But the hydroplanes pull it up and down, two pairs of them set fore and aft of the centre of gravity.