steamboat

English

Robert Fulton's Clermont

Etymology

steam + boat

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈstimˌboʊt/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/

Noun

steamboat (plural steamboats)

  1. 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.

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steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

  1. To travel by steamboat.

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