flying boat
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noun
a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
Compare floatplane.
Origin of flying boat
First recorded in 1900–05
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More, it is the wreck of the flying-boat, and that rascal Durango has eluded us again.
The Dreadnought of the AirPercy F. Westerman
We will then forge ahead and investigate Durango's flying-boat.
The Dreadnought of the AirPercy F. Westerman
Then there is the flying-boat, developed under naval auspices.
Our Navy in the WarLawrence Perry
The flying-boat vanished from the surface of the sea as if she had been a smudge wiped off a slate with a sponge.
The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost LinerWilbur Lawton
I have come back to you with great peril in my flying-boat to tell you of the upper world and all its goodness.
Darkness and DawnGeorge Allan England
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