fireboat
noun
fireboat is a noun meaning “A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-R-E-B-O-A-T, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fireboat is fireboats.
What does fireboat mean?
noun
- 1
A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.
- 2
Synonym of fireship
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fireboat
- fireboats plural
- fire-boat
- fire boat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fireboat?
Fireboat appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fireboat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 1. A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto docksid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Löschboot |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fireboat come from?
From fire + boat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).