steamboatman
English
Etymology
steamboat + -man
Noun
steamboatman (plural steamboatmen)
- Someone employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
- 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi:
- 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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