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steam-boat

steam-boat is the alternative spelling of steamboat.

Meaning of steamboat

Noun

steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)

  1. 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.1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi
    Synonyms:
    steamer, steamship
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore, countable) A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.

See all 6 meanings of steamboat

Forms of steam-boat

pluralsteam-boats

Questions about steam-boat

What is steam-boat the alternative spelling of?
Steam-boat is the alternative spelling of steamboat.

Words near steam-boat in the dictionary

  1. steam up
  2. steam wagon
  3. steam wagons
  4. steam yacht
  5. steam yachts
  6. steam-boat
  7. steam-boats
  8. steam-crack
  9. steam-cracked
  10. steam-cracking
  11. steam-cracks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: steam-boat (page history and authors); steamboat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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