As nouns the difference between steamboat and sailboats
is that
steamboat is a boat or vessel propelled by steam power while
sailboats is .
As a verb steamboat
is to travel by steamboat.
steamboat English
Noun
( en noun)
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- 1870' ''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.'' — Mark Twain, ''Life on the Mississippi ,
Chapter 3.
Synonyms
* steamer, steamship
Verb
( en verb)
To travel by steamboat.
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sailboats English
Noun
(head)
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