Usually means: Vessel equipped for firefighting on water.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word fireboat:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. fireboat: Merriam-Webster
  2. fireboat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. fireboat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fireboat: Vocabulary.com
  5. fireboat: Wordnik
  6. fireboat: Wiktionary
  7. fireboat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fireboat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fireboat: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fireboat: Dictionary.com
  11. Fireboat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fireboat: Rhymezone
  13. fireboat: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fireboat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fireboat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fireboat: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fireboat)

▸ noun:  A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.

Similar:
bunker barge, balance dock, floating dock, dock, houseboat, harbor, firehall, boilerhouse, lifeboathouse, boatage, more...

Opposite:
landboat, non-fireboat, watercraft, barge, ship

Types:
pumper, monitor, tender, dredge, catamaran, hovercraft, airboat, more...

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Similar:
bunker barge, balance dock, floating dock, dock, houseboat, harbor, firehall, boilerhouse, lifeboathouse, boatage, more...

Opposite:
landboat, non-fireboat, watercraft, barge, ship

Types:
pumper, monitor, tender, dredge, catamaran, hovercraft, airboat, more...



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