fireboat

1. 1.

   a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront

   Broaderboat

Other forms of fireboat

plural

fireboats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fireboat

What does fireboat mean?

fireboat means "a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront".

How many syllables are in fireboat?

fireboat has 4 syllables: fi-re-bo-at. The stress falls on "re".

Is fireboat a common word?

fireboat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.