steam-boat

English

Noun

steam-boat (plural steam-boats)

  1. Alternative form of steamboat
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, page 256:
      Yet a steam-boat is the last place in the world for these reflections: the ridiculous is the reality of the sublime, and its deck is a farce without spectators.
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