kicker

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

a small outboard motor.

Quotations

1928

In such cases the kicker is hung in a hole cut at a proper height in the long overhang of the stern.

1963

Travelling down-stream with a good "kicker" (outboard motor) pushing the canoe at a good speed is easy.

1bn.

any gasoline-driven boat-motor of low horsepower.

1931

Our "two-sticker with a kicker" lies in Sandy Bay harbour, Nova Scotia, outward bound for Labrador, that terra incognito even to the Maritimers.

2n.

a boat driven by a kicker (def. la).

See: kicker(def. 1a)

1929

This is the Judge's twelfth trip over the rivers, so he knows the ropes. Seymour appears to understand the "kicker."

1947

An isolated sectionman's shack flashes by, or a little lake on which a lonely "kicker" put-puts its way.

1963

Crafts in the air and kickers in the water get people long distances in a hurry.