Steamboat vs Sailboats - What's the difference?

steamboat | sailboats |


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.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "steamboat")

    sailboats

    English

    Noun

    (head)