noun
Etymology
Origin of iceboat
Example Sentences
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Top iceboat racers can attain speeds up to five times the wind speed.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
As Andrew gets his iceboat set up, though, the wind begins to pick up.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Havey, a Madison electrician, commissioned Frank Tetzlaff and Carl Bernard to build an iceboat that he would name after his wife.
From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2016
Word spread of the two boats meeting, and the weekend became an iceboat summit.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2014
Talking with men in the Transient-House I heard of the fur trade up the river, how licensed trappers went up and downriver by sledge or iceboat through Tarrenpeth Forest almost to the Ice.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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