steamboat

IPA: stˈimboʊt

noun

  • A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
  • (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
  • A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
  • Short for Steamboat Springs. (a city in Routt, Colorado, United States). [A hot spring field in Routt County, Colorado, United States.]

verb

  • To travel by steamboat.
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Examples of "steamboat" in Sentences

  • The steamboat arrived on the river.
  • This is the end of the working steamboat.
  • It was the last steamboat to ply the river.
  • The front of the building was a steamboat motif.
  • The first steamboat to pass through was the Uncas.
  • A steamboat plies the waters of the Missouri River.
  • The Steamboat Ski Resort operates on of the mountain.
  • Then the uninjured crewmen remembered the Norwich steamboat.
  • The first steamboat in America floated on the stream in 1763.
  • After the arrival of the railroads in the 1880, steamboat traffic diminished.
  • Silverheaded; but, to my great relief, it turned out that the steamboat is not running.
  • If the river was, as T. S. Eliot later wrote, “a strong brown god,” the steamboat was the godhead.
  • The steamboat is claimed as the “exclusive” discovery of Fulton, Jouffroy, Rumsey, Stevens and Symmington.
  • This steamboat, which is called the Burlington, is a perfectly exquisite achievement of neatness, elegance, and order.
  • He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.
  • Now the steamboat is a paddlewheel-sporting boutique hotel permanently moored at Coolidge Park Landing in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn.
  • White aw black aw octoroom free niggeh, Phyllis gwine to choose de old Hayle home and de great riveh -- full o 'steamboat' -- sooneh'n any lan 'whah de ain't mo'n one 'oman to de mile.
  • The steamboat was the first man-made apparatus to radically interrupt the arcadian wilderness, collapse vast distance, and discharge the artifacts of distant cultures into remote places.
  • The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats; steamship generally refers to larger steam-powered ships, usually ocean-going, capable of carrying a (ship's) boat.

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