Steamboat vs Riverboat - What's the difference?
steamboat | riverboat |
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
Riverboat is a hyponym of steamboat.
As nouns the difference between steamboat and riverboat
is that steamboat is a boat or vessel propelled by steam power while riverboat is a watercraft designed for operating on rivers.As a verb steamboat
is to travel by steamboat.steamboat
English
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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