Steamer: Definition and part of speech

Steamer

  1. n. The steamer duck.
  2. n. A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
  3. n. A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
  4. n. A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
  5. n. A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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