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means A shallow-draft boat built to carry passengers or freight along a river, often associated with paddlewheel steamers of old trade routes.

from A plain compound of 'river' and 'boat,' English doing what it does best — welding two blunt words together instead of borrowing a fancy one. 'River' traces back through Old French 'riviere' to Latin 'riparius' (of a riverbank), while 'boat' comes from Old English 'bat,' a word Germanic languages have shared for small craft since long before anyone wrote it down. The compound itself rose in use alongside 19th-century steam travel on rivers like the Mississippi, when such vessels became distinctive enough to need their own name.