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Steamboat

//ˈstimˌboʊt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs: a city, the county seat of Routt County, Colorado, United States. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  2. 2
    A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A boat or vessel propelled by steam power. countable, uncountable

    "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. 2
    a boat propelled by a steam engine wordnet
  3. 3
    Hot pot (Chinese dish). Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable
  4. 4
    A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot. Malaysia, Singapore, countable
Verb
  1. 1
    To travel by steamboat.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compound of steam + boat.

Etymology 2

Compound of steam + boat.

Etymology 3

Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs.

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