swamp boat

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noun

a shallow-draught boat powered by an æroplane engine mounted on a raised structure for use in swampsAlso called: airboat

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Words nearby swamp boat

swami, Swammerdam, swamp, swamp andromeda, swamp azalea, swamp boat, swamp buggy, swamp buttonwood, swamp cabbage, swamp cypress, swamper

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Example sentences from the Web for swamp boat

My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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On Belgika, Botala and his family watched as the white men loaded their families into a large boat and took off for Kisangani.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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Translators—many of whom came by boat themselves—work through the crowds with Italian authorities to take down names and details.
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Hoosier hurried on board the boat, and followed Dick's instructions to the letter.
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But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
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The Comet started on her first trip up the Arkansas, being the first steam boat that ascended that river.
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That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
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