English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "stoomboot" is 'n boot wat deur stoomkrag aangedryf word. Tipies gebruik stoombote 'n stoomenjin om krag op te wek wat 'n padwiel of skroef aandryf, wat die boot deur die water dryf. Stoombote is wyd gebruik in die 19de eeu vir vervoer, veral op riviere en binnelandse waterweë.

Sentence Examples

  1. In the fall of the year, when the first snows were falling and mush-ice was running in the river, Beauty Smith took passage for himself and White Fang on a steamboat bound up the Yukon to Dawson.
  2. From the Yukon arose the hoarse bellowing of a river steamboat.
  3. When the steamboat arrived at Dawson, White Fang went ashore.
  4. The Aurora was the first steamboat of the year for the Outside, and her decks were jammed with prosperous adventurers and broken gold seekers, all equally as mad to get to the Outside as they had been originally to get to the Inside.
  5. When Olivia managed to extricate herself and resumed her stroll, she set her mind on taking in every detail of the enormous steamboat.
  6. Several unloaded boxes from what Arija could only describe as an old-fashioned steamboat, while others barked orders.
  7. A few lowered their paddles and turned back toward the steamboat, smiling, waving, and calling welcomes until they were out of sight.
  8. And spending two days on the deck of a steamboat could be her first adventure.
  9. The steamboat appeared to be sitting on a wide metal beam, like the train they had taken when they first arrived.