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  • noun Someone who pilots a steamboat

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Examples

  • It was the querulous railing of a man who had been near death; it was the everlasting grouch of the sailing-man against the lordly steamboater.

    Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

  • A steamboater and shoe merchant, Kinney built the Rivercene mansion, now a bed-and-breakfast, on the Missouri River at New Franklin, Mo.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • A steamboater and shoe merchant, Kinney built the Rivercene mansion, now a bed-and-breakfast, on the Missouri River at New Franklin, Mo.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

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