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STEAMBOAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boat propelled by a steam engine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("steamboat" is a kind of...):
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steamboat"):
showboat (a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River))
Context examples:
We must have been struck squarely amidships, for I saw nothing, the strange steamboat having passed beyond my line of vision.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In the fall of the year, when the first snows were falling and mush-ice was running in the river, Beauty Smith took passage for himself and White Fang on a steamboat bound up the Yukon to Dawson.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The Aurora was the first steamboat of the year for the Outside, and her decks were jammed with prosperous adventurers and broken gold seekers, all equally as mad to get to the Outside as they had been originally to get to the Inside.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
