Steamboat Definition

stēmbōt
steamboats
noun
A steamship, esp. a relatively small one for use on inland waterways.
Webster's New World

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

1870 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. "” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.
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steamboat
Plural:
steamboats

Origin of Steamboat

Steamboat Sentence Examples

  • In this same year the first steamboat reached New Orleans.

  • This company was taken over by the London Steamboat Company in 1875.

  • Pop. (1900) 4743, of whom 1277 were foreign-born; (1904 state census) 5239 It is served by the Grand Trunk and the Pere Marquette railways, and by steamboat lines to Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports, and is connected with Grand Rapids and Muskegon by an electric line.

  • It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the West Shore, the Central New England, and the Poughkeepsie & Eastern (merged in the Central New England) railways, and by river steamboat lines on the Hudson.

  • Nashville is served by the Tennessee Central, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis railways, and by several steamboat lines.

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