steamboat

noun, verb — 4 senses

steamboat

noun

US /ˈstimˌboʊt/ · UK /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/

Etymology Compound of steam + boat.

1

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

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.1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:

2

Malaysia, Singapore Hot pot (Chinese dish).

3

Malaysia, Singapore A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.

Derived terms: steamboater, steamboatman, steamboats, Steamboat Springs

steamboat

verb

Etymology Compound of steam + boat.

1

To travel by steamboat.

Related terms: steamship, steamer

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