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countable and uncountable, plural steamboats
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power. quotations 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.
1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi
(uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish). examples
third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated
To travel by steamboat. examples