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steamer

[ UK /stˈiːmɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈstimɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a ship powered by one or more steam engines
  2. a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
  3. a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
  4. an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
VERB
  1. travel by means of steam power
    The ship steamed off into the Pacific

How To Use steamer In A Sentence

  • It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
  • Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
  • The guns of the Thunder Child sounded through the reek, going off one after the other, and one shot splashed the water high close by the steamer, ricocheted towards the other flying ships to the north, and smashed a smack to matchwood. The War of The Worlds
  • Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
  • Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer? Times, Sunday Times
  • The ancient sidewheel steamer was small and there were few passengers on the upper deck, forward. Janice Day at Poketown
  • The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
  • For more than a mile the beach was littered with wrecked ships, including debris from the steamer Curaca which was thrown across the full width of the narrows.
  • the steamer went astern at half speed
  • It is clearly time that the Lake Management planned for size regulations designed differentially for private vessels and those steamers commercially carrying passengers around the lake.
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