HYDROPLANE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

2.
n.

A projecting plane or fin on a gliding boat to lift the moving boat on top of the water; also, a gliding boat.

3.
v.

Of a boat, to plane (see Plane, below).