Crossword clues for riverboat
Wiktionary
n. A watercraft designed for operating on rivers.
Wikipedia
right|thumb |A Mississippi River System-type riverboat, from an 1850s daguerrotype.
A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways. They are generally equipped and outfitted as work boats in one of the carrying trades, for freight or people transport, including luxury units constructed for entertainment enterprises, such as lake or harbour tour boats. As larger water craft, virtually all riverboats are especially designed and constructed, or alternatively, constructed with special-purpose features that optimizes them as riverine or lake service craft, for instance, dredgers, survey boats, fisheries management craft, fireboats and law enforcement patrol craft.
Riverboat is an American western television series produced by Revue Studios and was broadcast on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1961 It starred Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds.
Usage examples of "riverboat".
Having Cassius Clay speaking on the riverboat had got the belowdecks folks into a state, and some of them were quite angry at Clay for making white folks feel guilty.
After the huge losses we had suffered on the riverboats, after the helplessness the troops had felt watching the conventional knights being slaughtered west of Sandomierz, after the confusion of the battle at Cracow, after seeing the senseless slaughter at East Gate, and after all the mind-numbing running and pulling in between, finally, at last, something was working perfectly!
As he talked on about the fighting on the riverboats, the battle near Sandomierz, the burning of Cracow, and the murder of the people at East Gate, the full horror and magnitude of the slaughter came to me.
Firekeeper could tell that considerable preparation had been done with the specific intent of moving Blind Seer from the riverboat to the larger ocean vessel.
He climbed the steps back to the Moonwalk, made sure nobody was watching, then headed toward the riverboat landing.
Downriver sandbars showed where fall had seen the river high above them, and the riverboats, half-loaded, still plied the middle of the channel with greatest care.
But soon, as the riverboat left Piliplok behind and began to make its way upriver, the Zimr narrowed somewhat and took on more a riverlike appearance, though it never became truly narrow.
China, on board the riverboat from Tientsin to Taku, the Stilwells joined a friend, Mrs.
In 1938, the Yellowknife Prospector published it and attributed it to a riverboat crew in 1919.
I entered the thing with a 110 year-old Colorado Riverboat and a crew of drug-crazed politicos from the Meat Possum Athletic Club.
He carried a long wrecking bar, the kind used to open heavy crates off-loaded from riverboats, and he looked eager to use it.
Right on the heels of this announcement, Coral said that three riverboats had just brought to the Yards complete plans for the construction of the Ship.
Louis Cathedral and listened to the bleating horns of riverboats coming down the Mississippi.
Louis and then ride the riverboats all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sure enough, one of the rowboats, with its pilot yelling for a steamboat to get out of the way, tried to insert itself between the big riverboats.