steamboatman

noun

Etymology

From steamboat + -man.

Definitions

  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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA