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





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"Steamboating" Quotes from Famous Books



... a very simple code. Work of any sort was praiseworthy and honorable, idleness or unproductivity was reprehensible. Mining, storekeeping, liquor-selling, gambling, steamboating, all were occupations which men followed as necessity or convenience prompted. A citizen gained repute by the manner in which he deported himself, not by reason of the nature of the commodity in which he dealt. Such, at least, was ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... flung back. "I stayed home and raised my family until it was big enough to do its own navigating. Then I started in steamboating. I had to ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street


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