steamboat
English

Robert Fulton's Clermont
Noun
steamboat (plural steamboats)
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.
- By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: stoomboot (calque)
Translations
vessel powered by steam
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Verb
steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)
- To travel by steamboat.
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