/bom'beuhr dear", -beuh-, bom'bahr dyay"/ , Trademark, Canadian.
a snowmobilelike vehicle driven by an internal-combustion engine, equipped with caterpillar tracks at the rear, steered by skis at the front, and designed for travel over snow.
[ 1945-50; after Canadian inventor and industrialist Armand Bombardier (d. 1964), who designed it ]