Steamer

Noun

 * 1)  A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
 * 2) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
 * 3) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
 * 4) A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
 * 5) A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
 * 6)  A dish of steamed clams.
 * 7) The steamer duck; a genus (Tachyeres) of ducks in the bird family Anatidae. All of the four species occur in South America, and all except one are flightless.
 * Note: see Wikipedia article on
 * 1)   A food 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.  Popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s.
 * 1864: of all the dishes ever brought to table, nothing equals that of the steamer &mdash; Edward Abbott, The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as Well as for the 'Upper Ten Thousand', London, 1864, in turn giving as his source "Australia, by Melville" (quoted in Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History, Colin Bannerman (and others), published by the National Library of Australia, 1998, ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 14)
 * 1)  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).
 * 2)  A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.

Derived terms

 * Cleveland steamer

Adjectives for Steamer
charter;  borrowed;   prosaic;   boarded; tramp; coastwise; filibustering; delinquent.

Thesaurus
Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamboat, steamship, whelk

Translations

 * Arabic: قدر بخاري
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蒸籠, 蒸笼
 * Finnish: painekattila, höyrykeitin
 * French: marmite à vapeur
 * German:, Dampftopf
 * Japanese: 蒸し器, 蒸器
 * Kamba:


 * Kikuyu:
 * Kis:
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Meru:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic: باخرة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 汽船, 輪船,  轮船
 * Finnish: höyrypesuri, höyrytin


 * French: bateau à vapeur
 * German:
 * Japanese: 蒸気船
 * Russian:


 * Arabic: باخرة, سفينة بخارية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 汽船, 輪船,  轮船
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dampskib
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: bateau à vapeur
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: kapal uap


 * Italian: nave a vapore
 * Japanese: 蒸気船
 * Macedonian: параброд
 * Norwegian: dampskip
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: пароплав


 * Finnish: lokomobiili, höyrytraktori


 * Finnish: höyrytetyt simpukat

Anagrams

 * reteams, streame, teamers