Steamboating: Definition and part of speech

Steamboating

  1. n. The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.
  2. n. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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