(n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
Example Sentences:
(1) After apprenticing as a printer, he worked briefly as a journalist before training as a steamboat pilot, a career interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1861.
(2) He is clear that it is McQueen's background as a film-oriented visual artist (winning the 1999 Turner prize for one of them, Deadpan, in which McQueen recreated Buster Keaton's collapsing house stunt from Steamboat Bill Jr ) that marks him out as a director.
(3) Open June-September Vista Verde, Steamboat Springs Vista Verde, Steamboat If you're an equestrian looking to brush up on your herding skills, or you're interested in dude ranches, Vista Verde – tucked among the pines on the rolling hills north-east of Steamboat Springs, near the Wyoming border – is a ranch offering an endless network of high-altitude (2,050m) trail riding, cattle drives by day, and square dancing in the barn after dark.
(4) A meeting held in Steamboat Springs focused on this issue under the title of 'Immunogenicity'.
(5) In order to do so he must first haul a huge steamboat over a high hill that separates two rivers, avoiding unnavigable rapids, and so take a shortcut to an unclaimed jungle of rubber-producing trees.
(6) The boats in Lossiemouth harbour are still flying the Fishermen for Leave flag, and in the Steamboat pub there is a mood of stoic optimism which contrasts sharply with the broad sense of anxiety in large parts of the country since the EU referendum.
(7) These requirements can be traced back to the Caroline incident in 1837, which involved a pre-emptive raid by British forces in Canada on a steamboat manned by Canadian rebels who were planning an attack from the US.
(8) This features a Steamboat Willie-era Mickey and Minnie, complete with Uncle Walt voice, breaking through the fourth wall in a computer-generated 3D skirmish with Peg-Leg Pete.
(9) (Nathaniel was equally badly hit when his younger sister Louisa died in a steamboat accident on the Hudson.)
(10) The Steamboat Mountain Ski Patrol incorporates local emergency physicians and a visiting trauma surgeon as a second-tier response to life-threatening mountain events.
(11) He has assumed an ever more childlike appearance as the ratty character of Steamboat Willie became the cute and inoffensive host to a magic kingdom,” Gould wrote.
Steamship
Definition:
(n.) A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sailors, who are suing their employers Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp for $50m, said Richard Phillips was a sullen, self-righteous man: their suit claims the captain's wilful disregard for his crew's safety contributed to the attack.
(2) Then on 15 June, 1918, the SS Makambo, a steamship carrying fruit and vegetables, ran aground.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cargo steamship SS Makambo, which ran aground off Lord Howe Island in 1918, introducing the black rats which now plague the local wildlife.
(4) Eleven crew members are bringing a lawsuit against Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corporation, and it will be difficult for historians to pick through what actually happened until that is resolved.
(5) The diphyllobothriasis incidence in the workers of the Amur basin steamship company during 1980-1989 was studied.
(6) A restless polymath, he imbued the kingdom with gloriously ambitious railways, sensational steamships, revolutionary bridges and a new industrial-era architecture.
(7) Education, hospitals and improved health, steamships, railways, and the telegraph – these were the tools of empire, brought to colonised peoples by the gift of commerce and good British government.