Iceboat

Definition: Iceboat

Iceboat

Noun

1. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.

2. A sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Iceboat

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Officers and crew posed on her forecastle and upper deck, circa July-August 1898. During the Spanish-American War, this Philadelphia city iceboat served briefly in the Delaware River area as a U.S. Navy refrigerator ship. Note her 60-pounder breech-loading rifle, converted from a Civil War vintage Parrott gun. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

varkë me slita, akullthyese (anti-icer, ice axe, ice breaker). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ледоразбивач (ice breaker). (various references)

Czech

sanì hnané plachtami. (various references)

German

segelschlitten, Eissegelboot. (various references)

Greek 

παγόπλοιο. (various references)

Italian

slitta a vela. (various references)

Pig Latin

iceboatay.(various references)

Portuguese

barco quebra-gelos (icebreaker). (various references)

Russian 

ледокол (ice breaker, icebreaker, ice-breaker). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čamac ledolomac. (various references)

Spanish

barco de hielo. (various references)

Swedish

isjakt (ice yacht), isbrytare (icebreaker). (various references)

Turkish

buzkıran (icebreaker). (various references)

Ukrainian

криголам (icebreaker), буєр. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "iceboat": iceboater, iceboaters, iceboating, iceboatings, iceboats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Iceboat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ciobotea, Ichbiah. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: biota, boite, ceiba, coati, cobia.

-3 letters: abet, bait, bate, beat, beta, bice, bite, boat, bota, cate, ciao, cite, coat, cote, etic, iota, obia, obit, otic, tace, taco, toea.

-4 letters: abo, ace, act, ait, ate, bat, bet, bio, bit, boa, bot, cab, cat, cob, cot, eat, eta, ice, oat, obe, obi, oca, tab, tae.

+1 letter: boracite, iceboats.

+2 letters: abbotcies, abjection, aerobatic, aitchbone, bacteroid, bioactive, boracites, cabriolet, cobaltine, cobaltite, cogitable, cohabited, combative, iceboater, metabolic.

+3 letters: abjections, abreaction, actionable, aerobatics, aitchbones, bacteroids, barometric, bichromate, bioethical, bioreactor, cabriolets, catabolite, catabolize, clofibrate, cobaltines, cobaltites, compatible, geobotanic, iceboaters, iceboating, noncabinet, noticeable, noticeably, orbiculate, picketboat.

+4 letters: abreactions, bacteriocin, baronetcies, benefaction, bibliotheca, bicarbonate, bichromated, bichromates, biometrical, bioreactors, bisectional, brecciation, cabinetwork, carburetion, catabolites, catabolized, catabolizes, celebration, cerebration, clofibrates, combatively, combinative, committable, compactible, compatibles, containable, cybernation, embrocation, exorbitance, iceboatings, meroblastic, noncabinets, nondiabetic, obstetrical, obstinacies, picketboats, problematic, recombinant, stenobathic, uncombative.