steamboat

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Translations 1.1.3 External links

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steamboat (plural steamboats)

1. 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• steamer, steamship

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[edit] External links

• Steamboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia