Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that steams.
- noun A steamship.
- noun A vehicle, machine, or engine driven by steam.
- noun A container in which something is steamed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which steams, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
- noun A steam fire engine. See under
Steam . - noun A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
- noun A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
- noun (Zoöl.) The steamer duck.
- noun (Zoöl.) a sea duck (
Tachyeres cinereus ), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called alsologgerhead ,race horse , andside-wheel duck .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cooking A
cooking appliance that cooks by steaming. - noun A
vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture. - noun A vessel propelled by steam; a
steamship orsteamboat . - noun A steam-powered road locomotive; a
traction engine . - noun A
wetsuit which has longsleeves and longlegs . - noun A dish of steamed
clams . - noun Any species of the
duck genusTachyeres , of which all four species occur in South America, and three are flightless. - noun Australia, food, obsolete A food made by cooking
diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it tosteam in its own juices; popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s. - noun obsolete A steam
fire engine , a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913). - noun horse racing A horse whose
odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- verb travel by means of steam power
- noun a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- noun a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
- noun an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
Etymologies
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Examples
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The steamer outwards from Barbadoes could land, and the homeward (p. 123) bound packet take up the Haytian mails at Cape Henry, when the return packet goes by the north side; and the _return_ Haytian mails could be picked up at Jacmel, if the packet, _when a steamer_, calls, as she may do, at that place on her voyage to Jamaica, preparatory to her return by way of St. Jago and Cape Nichola to Fayal or Falmouth.
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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Peaking out of the top steamer is thousands of disposable chopstick — accumulated in less than a year by a ‘one child policy’ family — packed together and standing on end.
Chopstick/Steamer Stool by Ryan Horsman and Jason Dembski 2009
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Being white gods, he did not resent their addresses to him, though he did not linger and went out on the open deck where more of the favoured gods reclined in steamer-chairs.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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To cook dumplings, bring water to a boil in the bottom of your steamer or pot (a bamboo steamer is ideal).
Steamed Dumplings: Sweet or Savory « Peace Corps: China 2009
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A tamalera, or tamale steamer, is good for this, because it is large and comes with a rack that fits the pot, but any large pot and rack will work.
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A tamalera, or tamale steamer, is good for this, because it is large and comes with a rack that fits the pot, but any large pot and rack will work.
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Territoriality and interspecific aggression in steamer-ducks.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Place the calabasitas in steamer and reduce to low heat.
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Place the calabasitas in steamer and reduce to low heat.
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Flightlessness in steamer-ducks (Anatidae: Tachyeres): its morphological bases and probable evolution.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
treeseed commented on the word steamer
A Steamer is a flavored milk beverage available in some coffeehouses and cafes in North America. A steamer consists of steamed milk and a shot of flavor syrup. The result is a hot, flavored non-coffee beverage.
February 5, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word steamer
A duck, a clam, or a wetsuit. You pick.
September 23, 2011
yarb commented on the word steamer
I'll have the clam, please.
September 23, 2011