Crossword clues for outboard
outboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outboard \Out"board`\, a. & adv. (Naut.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 situated outside the hull of a vessel. 2 positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft. n. 1 An outboard motor. 2 A vessel fitted with an outboard motor. 3 A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.).
WordNet
adj. located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft; "the outboard section of a wing"; "outboard rigging" [ant: inboard]
n. a motorboat with an outboard motor [syn: outboard motorboat]
internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat [syn: outboard motor]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "outboard".
The Mig broke hard to the left as the Hellfire left the outboard pylon and accelerated to just under Mach 1 Manesh put the craft in a vertical climb and began dispensing flares and chaff.
There they unstowed and assembled and inflated a large orange life raft complete with outboard motor, and all, including the pilots, transferred into it.
Dubauer made an abortive little bow, and the two herms passed onward into the lock leading to one of the outboard freight sections.
From the car, Perique brought back a large two-cylinder outboard and an extra drum of gasoline.
One of these symbiotic microorganisms is a protozoan named polymastigote, which moves around only because spirochete bacteria attach to it like tiny outboard motors.
Euphrates River 12 km SE Dayr Az Zawr, Syria Thursday, 9 March 1995 0545 Hours, Local It was still dark but the dawn was overtaking the underpowered outboard.
The other watchkeepers shifted uneasily and kept their eyes trained outboard.
It was an open wooden workboat about thirty feet long, with twin outboard motors.
The only difference was that present-day Yupik hunted from skiffs with outboard engines instead of kayaks, and four-wheelers and snow machines instead of dog sleds, and much of the time they did it commercially, for sale and not for subsistence.
Though the outboard motors were meticulously maintained by Tall Man, all outboards harbored gremlins and could seize up and stop at any moment for no apparent reason.
I filled up the tank of the outboard, slid my ungainly craft into the water and pushed off with the two empty jerricans, following the channel north-east past the tufted grass island of Stromay towards the village of Carinish.
Euphrates River 15 km N of Abu Kamal, Syria Wednesday, 8 March 1995 1830 Hours, Local The tiny outboard motor ran smoothly and quietly, pushing the little dhow north, up the Euphrates toward Turkey.
I remember one of the big outboards tumbling through space like a comet, trailing pale blue flames, its screw cutting on air.
The bottoms of both outriggers had been solidly planked, to afford sitting and standing space for the outboard banks of rowers, creating what was, in effect a triple hull.
All movement in the Mekong Delta at large meant boats-usually small sampans powered by ancient FRENCH outboards, which the VC piloted in the darkness through the twisting network of side streams and mud flats.