steamboat

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a boat propelled by a steam engine

Definition categories: man–made, boat

Sentences with steamboat as a noun:

- 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.

verb

1. To travel by steamboat.