steamboats in English
noun
1
a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.
At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
Use "steamboats" in a sentence
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1. Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
2. He also captured tradesmen posing nonchalantly outside their stores and ragged black labourers awaiting hire to unload steamboats.