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n. - A sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.

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  • With her brothers help, she had built the iceboat she rode now.
  • She turned her back on Tom and the others and strode to the iceboat.
  • There was even an iceboat, a catamaran resting on stainless-steel runners.
  • The boys had an idea for a new sort of iceboat, to be run by combined wind and motor power.
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