steamboatman

English

Etymology

steamboat +‎ -man

Noun

steamboatman (plural steamboatmen)

1. A person employed in the steamboat industry, especially one working on a steamboat.
   • 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in Life on the Mississippi‎^[1]:

     When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.