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Vinony

steamboat

noun

  1. smaller than a steamship; boat in which the primary method of marine propulsion is steam power
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈstimˌboʊt/ / /ˈstiːmˌbəʊt/

name

Etymology: Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs.

  1. Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs: a city, the county seat of Routt County, Colorado, United States.
  2. A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.

noun

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.”

  2. Hot pot (Chinese dish).
  3. A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.

verb

Etymology: Compound of steam + boat.

  1. To travel by steamboat.