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steamship [ˈstiːmˌʃɪp] n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a ship powered by one or more steam engines ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations steamship [ˈstiːmʃɪp] n → navire m à vapeur steam shovel n (US) → excavateur m steam train n → train m à vapeur How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Beginning with a raid on two steamship companies, it developed into a pitched battle with a city, a state, and a continental coastline. The participants in it, instead of freighting an ungainly steam ferry--boat with youth and beauty and pies and doughnuts, and paddling up some obscure creek to disembark upon a grassy lawn and wear themselves out with a long summer day's laborious frolicking under the impression that it was fun, were to sail away in a great steamship with flags flying and cannon pealing, and take a royal holiday beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42@ 15' N. |
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