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Arctic vessel
Answer for the clue "Arctic vessel ", 7 letters:
iceboat
Alternative clues for the word iceboat
Word definitions for iceboat in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
iceboat \iceboat\ n. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation; an icebreaker. Syn: icebreaker. a sailing craft with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice; it is usually propelled by a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 An ice yacht. 2 An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice. n. 1 An ice yacht. 2 An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice.
Usage examples of iceboat.
After that, we take an iceboat to Losaw, the chief city of the Tharmiers.
There you will find an iceboat to take you clear across to Tharmier country, which I belive was your original destination.
The chances of storage power driving an iceboat clear to safety were something of the order of one in twenty.
Edelline-Lan to arrange passage on an iceboat to the other side of the wind-plain.
Now the steps were the focal point for local idlers and off-duty, out of work iceboat crew.
The stories of the iceboat crews were filled with lost craft, spectacular disasters and men driven mad by the winds.
Phaid had forgotten just how incredibly dreadful a journey by iceboat could be.
He ran into a storm of storms, dancing the now dull eyed crew like a set of puppets and pushing the structure of the iceboat to the edge of distintegration.
As they settled in and found places, sailors began to push the little iceboat toward the metal barrier.
They leap over the rail onto the foredeck, and Roger uses the last momentum of the iceboat to wear away again, and in a matter of seconds they are flying east with the wind again, the howl greatly reduced.
The iceboat lies moored in the long shadow of Olympus Mons, hulking over the horizon to the east.
But a low beach, possibly formed by the recent overturning of the berg, received the Titan, and with her keel cutting the ice like the steel runner of an iceboat, and her great weight resting on the starboard bilge, she rose out of the sea, higher and higher --- until the propellers in the stern were half exposed --- then, meeting an easy, spiral rise in the ice under her port bow, she heeled, overbalanced, and crashed down on her side, to starboard.
Durn flatly refused Lyeth his permission to book passage on an iceboat or engage one of her own.
Jandi in his coffin rested in the hold of the Gambini iceboat, and Robin, wrapped in cloaks and blankets, slept uneasily in the cabin beside him.
Crescent Bathhouse lit from within, a bauble of incandescence quickly glimpsed before the iceboat tacked sharply and raced down the frozen Tobrin toward the sea.