steamboat
Speech parts
1. steamboat - Noun
2. steamboat - Verb
3. Steamboat - Proper noun
Meaning
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
About forty-five steamboat wrecks are scattered along these reaches of the river. citation citation Downstream from Great Falls, Montana, about convert of the river course through a rugged series of canyons and badlands known as the Missouri Breaks.
Also in a stern wheeler steamboat "Explorer", after two months and convert of difficult navigation, his party reached Black Canyon some two months after George Johnson.
Both Minnie and Mickey had appeared previously in "Plane Crazy," a short film that was distributed after "Steamboat Willie."
Archer travelled to Melbourne by steamboat yet again the next year (1863).