outboard motor
noun
: a small internal combustion engine with propeller integrally attached for mounting at the stern of a small boat
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Nolte told me that the marks had been left by outboard motors riding perilously low as water levels plunged.
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Alex Cuadros, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
According to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, a respected NGO, in its report Small Boats, Big Business, smugglers buy a boat, usually a cheap rigid inflatable with an outboard motor made in China, and shipped clandestinely via Turkey and Germany.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
California State Parks officials have begun additional exit inspections of boats at O’Neill Forebay, San Luis Reservoir and Los Banos Creek Reservoir to ensure all water is drained from livewells, bilges and outboard motors to prevent the spread of the mussels.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The tax-free period includes anything that is considered tangible personal property that is $500 or less, except watercraft, anything with an outboard motor that must be titled, a motor vehicle, alcohol, tobacco, a vapor product or a product that contains marijuana.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
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Alex Cuadros, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
According to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, a respected NGO, in its report Small Boats, Big Business, smugglers buy a boat, usually a cheap rigid inflatable with an outboard motor made in China, and shipped clandestinely via Turkey and Germany.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
California State Parks officials have begun additional exit inspections of boats at O’Neill Forebay, San Luis Reservoir and Los Banos Creek Reservoir to ensure all water is drained from livewells, bilges and outboard motors to prevent the spread of the mussels.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The tax-free period includes anything that is considered tangible personal property that is $500 or less, except watercraft, anything with an outboard motor that must be titled, a motor vehicle, alcohol, tobacco, a vapor product or a product that contains marijuana.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
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“Outboard motor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outboard%20motor. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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