steamboat
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
steamboat (plural steamboats)
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w 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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Chapter 3.]
- (Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
- French: bateau à vapeur
- German: Dampfschiff, Dampfer
- Italian: nave a vapore
- Portuguese: barco a vapor
- Russian: парохо́д
- Spanish: barco de vapor
steamboat (steamboats, present participle steamboating; past and past participle steamboated)
- To travel by steamboat.
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