steamboat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a boat propelled by a steam engine

3. 3
   noun

   Hot pot (Chinese dish).

4. 4
   noun

   A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.

Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs.

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