noun
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a boat or ship driven by steam engines
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Also called: steam box. an apparatus for steaming wooden beams and planks to make them pliable for shipbuilding
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a vessel used to cook food by steam
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slang a clash of sporting teams characterized by rough play
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Origin of steamer
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Nothing seemed to fit properly in the steamer.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
These are foam or gel-filled toys of various brands shaped like bao buns, and sometimes sold in plastic replicas of bamboo steamer baskets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"William was on the sprouts, getting his sprouts ready so they could go into the steamer, and Prince George was helping with the Yorkshire puddings," said Mr Clarke.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
In a steamer it takes two or three days to cross the North Sea—so many hours of slobbering through the viscous water.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
The market also offers workshops to make shower steamers and toilet cleaning tabs in partnership with Seattle Zero Waste.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
For the past 20 years she has instead worked maintaining electrical items, such as water purifiers and clothes steamers, in people's homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
Maybe she skimped on verbal and physical affection, favoring a love language that expressed itself in steamers full of dumplings or plates of sliced fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
There were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting steamers, which usually “hug” the shore so closely, kept well to seaward, and but few fishing-boats were in sight.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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