单词 | river steamboat |
释义 | > as lemmasriver steamboat river steamboat n. U.S. = river steamer n. ΚΠ 1828 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 28 Nov. If any of the river steamboats should not get business enough, they could move into the Lakes. 1857 M. H. Stacey Jrnl. 24 May in Uncle Sam's Camels (1929) ii. 28 What an immense difference we find between the quiet Sundays at home and the bustling ones on board these river steamboats. 1902 J. Conrad Youth 67 I was going to take charge of a two-penny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached! 2005 K. Hillstrom & L. C. Hillstrom Industr. Revol. in Amer. III. 28 The golden age of river steamboats in the United States ended with the first shots of the American Civil War. < as lemmas |
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