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  1. The process of crewing or operating a steamboat, or travelling as a passenger on one.
1870 In the heyday of the prosperity, the river from end to end was flaked with coal-fleets and timber rafts, all managed by hand, and employing hosts of the rough characters whom I have been trying to describe. " Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=640625349&textreg=2&query=steamboat&id=TwaLife Chapter 3.
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