steamboatman

steamboatman
Someone employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.

1870 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. — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, [ Chapter 4.]


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