motor cruiser

noun

A small pleasure craft that is fitted with an engine.

Meanings

nounmotor cruiser (plural motor cruisers)

plural motor cruisers

  1. nauticalA small pleasure craft that is fitted with an engine.

    Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey
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