English

Robert Fulton's Clermont

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• steamer, steamship

Translations

Verb

steamboat ‎(third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

1. To travel by steamboat.

External links

• steamboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia