The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steamboating
Steamboating \Steam"boat`ing\, n.
The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
(Bookbinding) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
steamboating
n. steamboat traffic
Usage examples of "steamboating".
Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprofitable years on San Francisco Bay, the Suisun and San Pablo sloughs and dogholes and the Sacramento River to be deceived as to the character of that fog, and he remarked as much to Mr.