Steamboat vs Clipper - What's the difference?
steamboat | clipper |
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
# (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
# (informal) An Alberta clipper.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
As nouns the difference between steamboat and clipper
is that steamboat is a boat or vessel propelled by steam power while clipper is anything that clips.As a verb steamboat
is to travel by steamboat.steamboat
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Noun
(en noun)- 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 ,
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Synonyms
* steamer, steamshipExternal links
* (wikipedia "steamboat")clipper
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Noun
(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
