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steamship

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steam·ship  (stmshp)
n.
A large vessel propelled by one or more steam-driven screws, propellers, or paddles.
steamship
Noun
a ship powered by steam engines
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Noun1.steamshipsteamship - a ship powered by one or more steam engines
steamer
paddle steamer, paddle-wheeler - a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
steam engine - external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder
tramp steamer, tramp - a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
Translations
Italian steamship [ˈstiːmʃɪp] n → piroscafo, vapore m
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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.
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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
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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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