Steamboat vs Sailboats - What's the difference?
steamboat | sailboats |
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
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)- 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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