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  • noun Plural form of hydroplane.

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  • Interspersed among the towns are other sights worth stopping for: a military aircraft museum, built at a landing site for World War I hydroplanes; the San Liberato estate, with botanical gardens and a ninth-century Romanesque church (by appointment, www.sanliberato.it ); and Martignano Lake, a smaller body of water accessible by car to patrons of a lakeside restaurant ( www.ilristoroamartignano.net ).

    Drives That Leave the City Behind 2011

  •      Culture was bush-league: hydroplanes, Seafair, Triple-A baseball, accordian players in bowties named Stan getting down with the two-step in lounges.

    Dry Rot 2010

  • My heart skips a beat as the van hydroplanes toward the rock-strewn edge bordering the ocean.

    Slayed Amanda Marrone 2010

  • But this exhibition's 108 photographs chronicle the territory from the sleepy shorelines of the 1920s to the sailboats, hydroplanes and ferries of the 1940s and 1950s that funneled visitors from Hong Kong.

    Time Off 2008

  • A pickup truck hydroplanes and flips into a flooded drainage ditch.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007 2007

  • That pickup truck hydroplanes and flips into in a flooded drainage ditch.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007 2007

  • That pickup truck hydroplanes and flips into in a flooded drainage ditch.

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007 2007

  • We go under an overpass and the moment we hit the wet pavement, my beloved van hydroplanes and throws us sideways into the passing lane.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006

  • Especially with a car that hydroplanes badly at highway speeds.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2003

  • At the same time the British increased the numbers of their destroyers and submarine chasers, and developed the depth bomb and the system of scouting with hydroplanes.

    1917, April 2001

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