Glossary of Steamboat Terms [E-L]

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• excursion boat
• flanking a boat
• firebox
• fantail
• flue
• flunky
• forecastle
• freedman’s bureau
• french landing
• fuel flat
• furnace room
• gangplank
• gangway
• gold-braid trade
• government light
• grass line
• grass-hoppering
• grate bar
• guard rail
• guards
• gunnels
• gunwale
• hail
• hawser
• hog chains
• hogshead
• houseboat
• hurricane deck
• jackstaff
• john-boat
• kedge
• keel
• keelboat
• labor
• larboard
• lathes’ cabin
• laying low
• lead line
• leadman
• levee
• lighter
• line
• loaded flat
• lock
• lock and dam

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