flying boat

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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Historical Examples of flying boat

More, it is the wreck of the flying-boat, and that rascal Durango has eluded us again.
The Dreadnought of the Air
Percy F. Westerman
We will then forge ahead and investigate Durango's flying-boat.
The Dreadnought of the Air
Percy F. Westerman
Then there is the flying-boat, developed under naval auspices.
Our Navy in the War
Lawrence 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 Liner
Wilbur 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 Dawn
George Allan England

British Dictionary definitions for flying boat

flying boat

noun

a seaplane in which the fuselage consists of a hull that provides buoyancy in the water

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