steamboat

Etymology

Compound of steam + boat.

noun

  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. (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).

verb

  1. To travel by steamboat.

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