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Flying boat   /flˈaɪɪŋ boʊt/   Listen
Flying boat

noun
1.
A large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons.





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"Flying boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... surface and came up dazed and nearly stunned. As he floated, dashing the water from his eyes, he saw the Drifter, now a flying boat, cut around a point of rocks, bearing ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood
... the verdurous gateway steering, The strong-armed oarsmen urge their flying boat, Till now, the broad horizon disappearing, On the still island-lake they pause ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... remembered that they were in pursuit of a German spy. The remainder of his scepticism forsook him. Amid such surroundings, with the singing of the wind and the gurgling swish of the flying boat in his ears, any adventure seemed possible. The prosaic limitations of ordinary life dropped off from him. Only it seemed a pity to find the spy, since finding ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... his small two-seated racer, since it was the fastest craft in the hangar. Realizing, however, that Captain Britten might want to bring along considerable baggage, the young inventor had told Ned he felt it best to go in his flying boat. ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... a bully plan. If we can make it and if he can get leave we will explore the headwaters of the Amazon with a two-passenger Curtiss flying boat, maybe next year. ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis


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