Sara, in blue slacks, a red bandana handkerchief over her head, was trying to start a stubborn outboard motor.
It looked like one of Ottman's rented boats with an outboard attached.
The wheels are shown in elevation, with the upper pivoted arms folded on top of the fixed arms, and in cross section; the latter shows the shape of the buckets, hub, and outboard bearing of the shaft.
Reconstructed drawing of spar and outboardprofile of the Savannah.
The method of removing the wheels from the shaft is not described, but from the drawings it seems probable that they were detached from the shaft by removing a lock bolt outboard and sliding the wheels off the square shaft.
There was a boat, he noticed, an outboard skiff perhaps fifteen feet long, pulled up on the bank under an oak tree at the edge where the lawn met uncut field.
Back on deck, Rick started the houseboat's outboardmotors and listened critically.
They were in only two feet of water, and the outboardwas stirring up mud at the stern.
Tied to one side of it was a sturdy runabout with anoutboard motor.
The outboard runabout moved away from the pier and into the creek.
The young agent had been working as he talked, checking the outboard motor, checking the connections to the gasoline tank, and pumping pressure into it.
Scotty checked the runabout outboard to make sure it would start easily and that there was plenty of gas, while Rick put their tanks and regulators aboard.
Intent on the crab, the ray ignored the stronger vibrations caused by a pair of outboard motors and a long, flat-bottomed hull.
Rick wondered if the sound of the outboard motor could be heard at the mansion, and decided it probably could not.
It seemed to have broken loose from its mooring and been swept away; its outboardmotor was silent and it swung in slow circles as the currents caught at it.
They had a rowboat below, powered with an outboard motor.
It may be too high or too low at the outboard end only.
The arm M that supports the two lower feed gears pivots upon the outboard end of the back bushing, hence its centre coincides with that of the spindle.
The engine is shown to have had counterbalanced side levers, one on each side, and a single flywheel on the outboard side.
This gives room for cotton bales, outboard the stanchions, to form a barricade.
The outboard sides are "moulded," with round bilges, the inboard sides are straight and flat, as though a hull had been split along the middle line and then planked up flat where split.
The outboardappearance and hull form, rig, and arrangement of armament require no reconstruction, for all that is of importance is shown in the lines and rig drawings, or in the inboard profile.
He shrugged, and we hopped off the littleoutboard motorboat onto a landing stage.
For a moment there, I was counting seconds, expecting to have to make a jump for it before the big red steel flank squeezed the little outboard flat against the piles.
If there ever were a sturdy ship, fit to be named with Columbus' gallant craft or Hudson's vessel, it was that frail outboard which buffeted the rising waters of a Louisiana bayou gone flood mad.
Val headed in toward it, running the outboardbetween the stranger and the landing.
It also saves having a long outboard spar in the shape of a bowsprit, and so does away with any need of reefing.
I am now bringing up core rpm for starboard cluster, outboard trident.
He spoke to Petra, then reached down with his left hand and flicked forward the second blue switch behind the throttle quadrant, initiating the simulated hydrogen feed to the outboard scramjet tridents, portside and starboard.
Power-up complete for inboard and outboard tridents, portside and starboard, Petra reported finally.
The man ducked down into the boat, and a moment later switched on an outboard motor, which rapidly carried him beyond view.
The outboard motor roared, and the boat raced past the gap in the reef and rushed toward the lagoon opening.
Terry went with him to get the outboard motorboat he and Deirdre had used before.
Terry had the outboard in the water by the time Davis arrived.
The staccato roaring of anoutboard motor sounded some distance away.
Doug inspected the catch as the outboard went back to the yacht.
The outboardboat pushed away from the yacht, its motor roaring.
Six men stood by to lower away and one to cut loose our cask drag, which had been swung outboard in a handy sling.
The latter I made fast to a handle of my sea-chest, and lowered the coverlet through the cabin window, exposing outboard as little as possible of the white sheet.
The right engine (right outboard engine) started sputtering out its story that it was all through for the day.
Dave cut the ignition of the left outboard engine, leveled off just over the sand, and then let the plane sink down to one of the finest landings he had ever made in his flying career.
With the right engine gone, the force of the left outboard engine tried to veer the ship around in that direction, and Dave was forced to put on a lot of opposite rudder to keep the plane flying straight.
Even with the left outboard engine running full blast, the Messerschmitt One-Ten became logy in the air, and it was all Dave could do to keep it on an even keel, and stop it from whipping over and down into a spin.
Just then, Steve, leaning outboardover the railing, felt someone tug at his arm.
Tim snapped the rope on the outboard and they churned ahead again, keeping as close to the trees as possible and threading their way along a bayou which paralleled the river.
From behind him and sounding above the steady throbbing of the outboard came the thrumming of airplane engines.
Turning on the ignition he gave the starter rope on the outboard a jerk.
A light outboard had been fastened to the stern and an extra can of gasoline had been placed in the boat.
At the store he learned that Ford had stored his car in the village, rented a boat with an outboard motor, laid in a supply of food and a tent, and started down river the day before.
Tim shut off theoutboard and they drifted under the dense foliage of the river bank.
With experienced hands, the old sailor started the outboard and they shot out into the shallow bayou.
He jammed the throttle of the outboard on full and his boat leaped ahead.
Tim opened the throttle of the outboard wide and swung the nose of the boat sharply to the left.
While Ralph in the Jupiter chased the slower amphibian all over the valley, Tim and Ford sped up the river as fast as the outboard motor could chug.
An obstruction of some kind had impeded the turning of the shaft in the "outboard bearing," which had grown dangerously hot.
His eyes, gazing outboard upon the sunlit Caribbean, had the look of a sleepwalker's.
As the converted yacht's bower anchor splashed down at the cove's mouth, her launch swung outboardfrom the davits, manned by a boatswain and two armed sailors.
On each side of the keel piece a sheathing strake was placed which was thick on the edge against the keel but thin along the outboard edge, in order to fair the sheathing into the keel piece.
The billets are first shaped so that theoutboard face of each stem-piece is about ¾ inch wide, making it a truncated triangle in cross-section.
The next strake outboard was in two lengths lapped amidships, parallel sided along the arms of the triangular strake, and snied off at the ends to fit along the sides of the first strake.
Some of the old Algonkin canoes examined had what appeared to be a wulegessis just outboard of the headboards.
Sometimes two struts were used, side by side, with the outboard ends lashed at the sides of the stem.
The result is that the group when seen from outboard appears as a ~W~-form, with only two or three holes in the bark for an entire group.
Paddles were used in whaling, but in more recent times sail, oars, and outboard engines have been employed.
In some parts of the West and Northwest, the ends were formed of boards set up on edge fore-and-aft, the bark being lashed through all, with the boards projecting slightly outboard of the ends of the bark cover to form a cutwater.
The headboards were bellied toward the ends to keep the bark cover under tension, and the ends outboard of the headboards were stuffed with shavings or moss.
Often there was no bevel to take the rib ends on the lower outboard corner of the main gunwales, and the gunwales were not fitted so that their outboard faces stood vertically.
The right outboard engine had started kicking up again, but this time it was really doing it in earnest.
Almost at the same instant, and as though in sympathy for its mechanical brother, the left outboard engine started falling off in revs at an alarming rate.
The way the oil pressure of the right outboardengine had dropped told him that there was trouble ahead.
And even as Dave grabbed for the throttle, the right outboard engine let out a grinding scream as though it were actually something human, and in mortal pain.
At that moment the right outboard engine of the Lockheed lost revs fast and began to sputter and clatter.
Dave killed the right engine completely, shoved hard on the left rudder to check the plane yawing, and concentrated on keeping the left outboard engines alive as long as possible.
And so Dave spoke the words just to keep the conversation going and fixed his eyes on the instruments pertaining to the functioning of the right outboard engine.
The oil feed lines of the right outboard engine were split and parted in three different spots.
His best bet was to keep going, nursing the right outboard engine as much as he could, and hoping and praying that it would continue to tick over and produce power.
A rash of outboard motor failures played havoc with the landing formations, and Liversedge’s after action report noted that this could have resulted in “serious consequences.
The outboard engines did not work and the men soon grew exhausted trying to paddle against the breakers.
The thing was not one quarter the size of her rowboat; yet it boasted an outboard motor capable of handling a twenty foot boat.
But I got a motor, an outboard motor," he added cheerfully.
To all lodgekeepers and to all captains of ships touching at Isle Royale: Be on the lookout for red-and-black boat powered by heavy outboard motor.
Like ten outboard motors all in one the thing thundered--the hose in Florence's hand writhed and twisted like a snake.
Then, at a word, five sturdy young pumps, each with the power of ten outboard motors, began passing water from barrel to barrel until it shot forth in a broad stream.
If this pump worked like an outboard motor she could start it.
Three times, all unknown to Florence, the powerful Katie had pulled the rope that turned the wheel of the strange pump that looked like an outboard motor.
Outboard the open sea merges away into the gloomy sky with no horizon, no ruling of a division.
There is no preparatory trickle at outboard end of the hose ejections; with a rush and roar, a clean, solid flood pours over, an uninterrupted cascade at seven tons from each per minute!
We have now to think of concerted action, outboard the limits of our own bulwark; we have become subject to restriction in our sailing; we conform to movements whose purpose may not, perhaps, be plainly apparent.
Gazing constantly outboard and around, they add eyes to our muster.
Davits, swung outboard as when the last of her crew left her, stand up in unfamiliar dejection, the frayed ends and bights of the boat-falls dangling overside and thrumming on the rusty hull.
Added to the watch of the ship's crew, military signallers are posted; the boats swung outboard have each a party of troops on guard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
