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Skid on wet roads
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hydroplane
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"motorboat that glides on the surface of water," 1895, coined by U.S. engineer Harvey D. Williams ["Sibley Journal of Engineering," Cornell University, vol. X, p.81]; from hydro- + plane (from airplane ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hydroplane (or hydro , or thunderboat ) is a fast motorboat , where the hull shape is such that at speed, the weight of the boat is supported by planing forces, rather than simple buoyancy . A key aspect of hydroplanes is that they use the water they ...
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydroplane \Hy"dro*plane\, n. [Pref. hydro-, 1 + plane.] A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an ...
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.