steamboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of steamboat
Vocabulary lists containing steamboat
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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The Industrial Revolution - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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The steamboat reversed this flow, reshaping the antebellum economy decades before the railroad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
A grand jury in 2020 initially indicted Boylan on 34 counts of a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as “seaman’s manslaughter” that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
Seaman’s manslaughter was enshrined after steamboat disasters killed hundreds of people in fires and boiler explosions.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2022
Early one morning a few days later, he left for Easton Point where he could catch a steamboat to Baltimore.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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