steamboatman

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noun

A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.

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Meanings

nounsteamboatman (plural steamboatmen)

plural steamboatmen

  1. A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.

    When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.

    1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi

Origin

From steamboat + -man.

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APA

steamboatman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steamboatman

MLA

“steamboatman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steamboatman. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “steamboatman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steamboatman.

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