steamer
IPA: stˈimɝ
noun
- A device or object that works by the operation of steam.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- (obsolete) A steam fire engine, that is, a steam boiler and engine driving a pump, which are all mounted on wheels.
- A mode of transportation propelled by steam.
- (rail transport) A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- The name of various animals.
- The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
- (Britain, slang) An act of fellatio.
- (Britain, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (Britain, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- (Australia, obsolete) A dish made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices; specifically such a dish made with kangaroo meat.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (Britain, slang) A mug.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (Britain, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- (Britain, slang) A prostitute's client.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- Clipping of steamer trunk. [A kind of chest for luggage, having a flat or slightly curved top and usually covered in canvas, leather or patterned paper.]
verb
- (intransitive) To travel by steamer.
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Examples of "steamer" in Sentences
- Steamer price war and settlement.
- Altered to a paddle steamer in 1843.
- A small steamer operates on the lake.
- It was a barque rigged auxiliary steamer.
- The steamer was forced aground by a storm.
- For a while they had to travel by a steamer.
- Constructed in Philadelphia as a steamer in 1855.
- The Siege of Khartoum was ameliorated with steamers.
- Place the calabasitas in steamer and reduce to low heat.
- Territoriality and interspecific aggression in steamer-ducks.
- Dozens of steamers ply between the different towns on the lake.
- The paddle steamer Regent was the first steamer to be built on the River Thames.
- Flightlessness in steamer-ducks (Anatidae: Tachyeres): its morphological bases and probable evolution.
- To cook dumplings, bring water to a boil in the bottom of your steamer or pot (a bamboo steamer is ideal).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.