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Definition of Outboard
1. Noun. A motorboat with an outboard motor.
2. Adjective. Located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft. "Outboard rigging"
3. Noun. Internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat.
Generic synonyms: Ice, Internal-combustion Engine
Terms within: Screw, Screw Propeller
Definition of Outboard
1. a. & adv. Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
Definition of Outboard
1. Adjective. Situated outside the hull of a vessel. ¹
2. Adjective. Positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft. ¹
3. Noun. An outboard motor. ¹
4. Noun. A vessel fitted with an outboard motor. ¹
5. Noun. A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outboard
1. a type of motor [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outboard
Literary usage of Outboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"Keel or outboard Condensers consist of pipes on the outside of the ... vessel is
coppered or has a bronze outboard bearing. Air Pump. ..."
2. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"A term applied to a fore and aft girder running along the side of a ship and also
to the outboard strake of plating on any deck. ..."
3. Modern American Marine Engines, Boilers and Screw Propellers: Their Design by Emory Edwards (1881)
"outboard Delivery. outboard air-pump delivery-valve to be a poppet-valve, 7^
inches diameter, with cast-iron chamber and composition valve, stem, and gland, ..."
4. Down the Yellowstone by Lewis Ransome Freeman (1922)
"On the Missouri, on stretches where I did not use my outboard motor, I averaged
just about the same as the united explorers on their down-stream voyage. ..."
5. Direct-acting Steam Pumps by Frank Ferdinand Nickel (1915)
"outboard High-pressure Cylinders.—The simplest design is that shown in Figs.
74 and 98. The low-pressure cylinders are located next to the pump end and each ..."
6. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"... THE outboard MOTOR IN FISHING GETS YOU THERE AND BACK AGAIN WITHOUT BREAKING
YOUR BACK Way back in the dim and dusty past, when Rags was a purp and my ..."
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