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.