† hydro-aeroplanen.
/ˌhʌɪdrəʊˈɛːrəpleɪn/ Obsolete.
An aircraft designed to land on and take off from the water; a seaplane.
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flying boat1903
hydro-aeroplane1909
hydroplane1911
waterplane1912
airboat1913
seaplane1913
float-seaplane1919
cabin cruiser1921
float-plane1922
1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 4/2 Before the present year expires the hydro-aeroplane will be an accomplished fact.
1914 Scotsman 21 Dec. 8/2 A German hydro-aeroplane threw two bombs on Calais this afternoon.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 49/2 Its performance as a hydro-aeroplane suffered from the extra weight and resistance of the floats.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station i. 39 Up till now it has been necessary..to use the term ‘hydro-aeroplane’ when describing a machine that was designed to arise from and alight on the surface of water. Owing to its cumbersome sound it was not popular... The Admiralty decided to use the word ‘sea-plane’.
1930 Flight 25 July 837/1 You [sc. G. H. Curtiss] invented the hydroaeroplane and the flying-boat and thus opened the way for trans-Atlantic flight.
1932 C. H. Chatfield & C. F. Taylor Airplane & its Engine (ed. 2) xiv. 316 The term seaplane..is synonymous with hydroairplane, a word too clumsy ever to have come into common use.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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