What is "steamboatman"

Usage examples of "steamboatman".

The absence of the pervading and jocund steamboatman from the billiard-saloon was explained.

I could not know how the lordly steamboatman scorns that sort of presumption in a mere landsman.

They always run to the side when there is anything to see, whereas a conscientious and experienced steamboatman would stick to the center of the boat and part his hair in the middle with a spirit level.

Marsh and Framm both attended, along with every other steamboatman in the town, and after everybody had been drinking some they got to telling river stories.

Having now set forth in detail the nature of the science of piloting, and likewise described the rank which the pilot held among the fraternity of steamboatmen, this seems a fitting place to say a few words about an organization which the pilots once formed for the protection of their guild.

I remembered that it was the custom of steamboatmen in the old times to load up the confiding stranger with the most picturesque and admirable lies, and put the sophisticated friend off with dull and ineffectual facts: so I concluded, that, from a business point of view, it would be an advantage to disguise our party with fictitious names.

But I suspected that the ranks were thin now, and the steamboatmen no longer an aristocracy.

There were several old steamboatmen along, and I learned from them a great deal of what had been happening to my former river friends during my long absence.

I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen, but got so pleasantly involved in the social life of the town that I got nothing more than mere five-minute talks with a couple of dozen of the craft.

During normal hours, the tables would have been full of travelers and steamboatmen, but now the room was empty, most of the lights extinguished.

In fact, so much is this the case, the waters of Red River have been driven down from toward the Calcasieu country, and the waters of the Black enter the Red some fifteen miles above the mouth of the former, a thing never before seen by even the oldest steamboatmen.