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Meanings of steamboat in English
Smaller than a steamship; boat in which the primary method of marine propulsion is steam power.
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Examples for "steamer"
Examples for "steamer"
1
The water stays fairly chilled all year so don't forget your steamer.
2
Russian steamer to Baku; rail to Batoum; steamer to Constantinople and India.
3
In trains and in hotels and, after sufficient interval, in the steamer.
4
The deputation took the next steamer and proceeded to the national capital.
5
It has usually been in the smoking-room of a local mail steamer.
Usage of steamboat in English
1
The first steamboat in the United States ascended the Hudson in 1807.
2
The prettiest part of it is the going by in the steamboat.
3
The chambermaid of the steamboat displayed the greatest sympathy in my behalf.
4
General Baker came down himself in the steamboat which arrived this afternoon.
5
The silver smoke of a steamboat hung in wisps above the water.
6
It was a two-story cabin built in the shape of a steamboat.
7
The albatross knows of old the course of the great steamboat liners.
8
The lights of the steamboat had long since disappeared around the bend.
9
On the following day they left in the steamboat for New York.
10
Near some of the steamboat landings in Florida no shouting is allowed.
11
He is now remembered and honored as the inventor of the steamboat.
12
The going of a steamboat is certainly not sailing, in any sense.
13
As was natural, our hero drifted down to the long steamboat landing.
14
Such is now the characteristic of steamboat building on the western lake.
15
For my own reasons, I want to be master of a steamboat.
16
No wonder you wanted yourself a steamboat so much, Mister Cap'n York.
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Steamboat through the time
Steamboat across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common