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screw steamer

screw steamer noun: a boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.

Noun

screw steamer (plural screw steamers)

  1. A boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.
    • The crew were all civil and good-tempered, and with very little discipline everything went on smoothly, and the vessel was kept very clean and in pretty good order, so that on the whole I was much delighted with the trip, and was inclined to rate the luxuries of the semi-barbarous prau as...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 195

Forms of screw steamer

pluralscrew steamers

Questions about screw steamer

What does screw steamer mean?
Screw steamer means a boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.
What part of speech is screw steamer?
Screw steamer is a noun.
What is the plural of screw steamer?
The plural of screw steamer is screw steamers.

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