Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "rubber dinghy".
Whether they're rowing a boat or paddling a rubber dinghy they have a long haul ahead of them.
Fenelon stood in the conning tower with Jacaud and below three sailors were fitting an outboard motor to the stern of a large rubber dinghy.
When the stores are in it, that rubber dinghy is full - there's barely space for me.
Then a helicopter to the border -- so much easier than walking, gentlemen -- a rubber dinghy for the Rhine and then a short walk.
Lying in the dancing rubber dinghy, Rod heard a bull voice bellow above the rush of the water.
Shelborne had lain a cable's length from the Mazy Zed while I gave a shout for Mary to come over in the rubber dinghy - alone - and join us.
As he drew closer to the cove he saw the rubber dinghy pulled partway up onshore and caught a flicker of movement and what appeared to be a silhouetted figure in a thicket just in from the beach.
Off Albufeira he ordered the commander of the U-boat to drop the canister, and then da Cunha went ashore in a rubber dinghy.
He dumped it on the edge of the quay, beside that black rubber dinghy which he brought ashore at Gaia Santa Galdana.
They wouldn't be able to do that because I'd been speaking to their ears and not Tewson's and there wasn't anything they could trip me on, so they'd have to console themselves with the obvious ones: what were you doing so far from land in a small rubber dinghy, why were you sworn to secrecy, who is your friend, so forth.
Simply descended a flight of stone steps to the water's edge and stood waiting, so I dropped over the side into the rubber dinghy, started the outboard motor and went to get him.
A rubber dinghy, portable radio transmitter and an immediate return to Navarone.
Paddling a rubber dinghy in a swell is difficult enough, paddling it in a specific direction against such a swell all but impossible: it would be a hundred times easier to regain the Matapan by hauling ourselves back hand over hand.
It was a timely precaution, for a moment later the Titanic's little rubber dinghy passed the mouth of the gulch, its motor bucking the current on the way back to camp.
He ordered Derrick and Kerri to get into a small rubber dinghy with an outboard motor.