steamboatman

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

steamboat +‎ -man

Noun[edit]

steamboatman (plural steamboatmen)

  1. A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
    • 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi‎[1]:
      When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.
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