steamboats
Speech parts
1. steamboats - Noun
2. steamboats - Adjective
Meaning
steamboats (not comparable)
(UK, Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
steamboats
plural of steamboat
Synonyms
Examples
After sales in New Orleans, steamboats operating on the Mississippi transported slaves upstream to markets or plantation destinations at Natchez and Memphis.
Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Department of the Environment, Ottawa. p. 88. It was even stacked like cordwood and used to fuel steamboats.
During the busy season there were several ferry boats and steamboats available to transport travelers to the Kansas shore where they started their travels westward.
It has not been opened since the early 1900s, though, when the last of the big steamboats disappeared.
It is located at Steamboat Landing, where steamboats from Cayuga Lake used to dock.
Its access by water was key to its initial development, with steamboats plying the Mississippi river.