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单词 ice boat
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ice boatn.

Brit. /ˈʌɪs bəʊt/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌboʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ice n., boat n.1
Etymology: < ice n. + boat n.1In form h'ice boat in quot. 1993 at sense 1 intended as eye dialect.
1. A boat or barge employed to break through the ice in a seaway, river, or canal.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > ice-breaker
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icebreaker1875
1741 C. Middleton Let. 4 Apr. in W. Barr & G. Williams Voy. Hudson Bay (1994) I. ii. 78 One small Ice-Boat that will carry about 6 men.
1799 European Mag. Apr. 262/2 The ice-boats were hoisted in again, and all hands turned to, to shore the ship.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) The other kind of ice-boat is a heavily laden barge, drawn along a frozen canal by a number of horses, and in its passage breaking through the ice, and thus clearing the navigation.
1892 Daily News 31 Dec. 3/4 This was the ice-boat—a small barge, sharp in the bows, much like a tug steamer, and the greenish-grey sheet of ice heaved before the pressure of its coming.
1950 L. T. C. Rolt Inland Waterways Eng. 113 Lacking the considerable sheer of the special ice boat which literally beats down the ice on either side, they tend to cut a narrow channel.
1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose v. 47 They had a job to sought out enough 'orses to draw the h'ice boat.
2. A boat specially rigged, esp. with runners, to allow it to travel over ice; spec. a light triangular structure fitted with a mast and sail, used as a pleasure craft on smooth ice. In later use also: a powered craft resembling a seaplane or bobsleigh for use on the ice.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > with sails
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ice yacht1838
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other non-self-propelled vehicles > [noun] > land vehicle driven by sails > for use on ice
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1748 D. Hume Let. 16 Mar. (1932) I. 117 You place Yourself on your Ice boat, which is like an ordinary Boat except only that it runs upon two Keels, shod with Iron.
1768 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 228 Ice-boats sailing up and down, the scaters, the booths, &c. All Holland is now alive.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Ice-boats, boats so constructed as to sail upon ice... They go with incredible swiftness, sometimes so quick as to affect the breath.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 277 The river had offered good sport for skaters, and the navigators of ice-boats.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1161/1 The ice-boats on the Maeze and Y, in Holland, consist of ordinary boats mounted on runners.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. ii. 18 Go zinging along on a fast ice-boat.
1946 Pop. Mech. Nov. 186/1 Speeds approaching 100 miles an hour on ice and a mile a minute on snow are claimed by the builder of this streamlined aero-driven ice boat.
1974 Kingston News 31 Jan. 8/5 Even with the wind singing and loaded down as it was, the agility of an ice boat is marvelous.
1996 E. A. Proulx Accordion Crimes (1997) 515 Basswood drowned in the winter when his iceboat plunged into a lead of open water in Lake Vermilion.
3. Chiefly North American. A fishing vessel equipped with facilities for the refrigeration of fish.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which store, freeze, or transport fish
well-boat1614
fish-pool1718
sack ship1732
well smack?1758
carrier1825
sale-boat1840
ice boat1846
plunger1860
runner1881
pound-boat1884
run boat1884
fish-carrier1886
smacka1891
shacker1902
Klondiker1926
factory trawler1928
1846 R. M. Martin Rep. Brit. Position & Prospects in China 44 Ice-boats attend the fishing-boats off Chusan, and as soon as the fish are caught they are packed in ice, and sent to the most distant parts of the empire.
1878 Saskatchewan Herald (Battleford) 29 July 4/1 The crew of the Lady Ellen are building an ice-boat for the fishing trade this winter.
1941 E. J. Kammer Socio-econ. Surv. Marshdwellers Louisiana viii. 118 Ice boats are larger than the ordinary trawl boat and are used only for transporting shrimp.
1986 W. Clement Struggle to Organize iii. 41 Their trips have been extended by the shift into freezer trawlers, which can keep the catch ‘fresh’ longer than conventional ice-boats.
2004 C. J. Walley Rough Waters ii. iv. 148 A tenga or woven basket of fresh fish could sell for 30,000 shillings..to an ice boat.

Compounds

General attributive, as ice-boat racing, ice-boat sailing, etc.
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1851 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 12 Mar. 7/3 A more beautiful and pleasurable sport than ice boat sailing can scarcely be imagined.
1912 Pop. Mech. Mar. 311/2 It made its appearance during the annual ice-boat races, and succeeded in running circles around all the other types of craft represented.
1938 Pop. Sci. Dec. 84/1 Ice-boat owners are getting more speed..by coating the steel runners with a modern, super-hard alloy.
1971 P. Berton Last Spike viii. iv. 360 Young officers were in demand at the highly stratified winter sports that marked the era:..the great skating fêtes, the ice-boat excursions, and the outings of toboggan clubs.
2007 K. McKenna Prairie Hamlet iv. 52 There's a write-up here about the ice boat racing, and there's a couple of photos too.

Derivatives

ˈice-boater n. a person who sails or races in an ice boat (sense 2).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > other types of race > one who
ice-boatman1869
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1877 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 14 Apr. 2/2 The ice on the lakes looks decidedly honeycombed, but the ice boaters have hung on to the last.
1912 J. C. Dier Bk. Winter Sports 1 The sail was fitted to a frame, and the ice-boater learned the thrill of flying faster than the wind that drove him.
1988 Newsday (N.Y.) 8 Jan. (Nassau ed.) 22/3 Iceboaters..always seem to find a lake or bay on which to race.
2005 M. Gosnell Ice (2007) xxv. 365 The ice that ice boaters want is flat, smooth, and snow-free.
ˈice-boatman n. now rare a person who sails in an ice boat; = ice-boater n.Cf. ice yachtsman n. at ice n. Compounds 8.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > other types of race > one who
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1869 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 11 Feb. 122/2 I should like some of your ice-boatmen to give us a description and the working dimensions of an ice-boat.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 9/1 A good ice-boatman thinks nothing of jumping cracks in the ice three, four, or six feet in width.
1974 Cumberland (Maryland) News 24 Oct. 30/1 Experienced iceboatmen whizzing over New England lakes and bays.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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