scoot

[< v. go suddenly and fast]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a boat equipped with runners, driven by an airscrew, and designed to operate on ice or water.

Quotations

1958

A scoot is a craft used for winter travel, primarily among the Thirty Thousand Islands of Georgian Bay [Ont.].

1961

. . . a scoot is a small craft driven by an aircraft motor and propeller that can travel over ice or through water.