steamboat
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.