Steamboat

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Steamboat Springs: a city, the county seat of Routt County, Colorado, United States.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
   countable, uncountable
3. A neighborhood of Steamboat Springs, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
4. Hot pot (Chinese dish).
   Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable
5. A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.
   Malaysia, Singapore, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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