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screw steamers

screw steamers is the plural of screw steamer.

Meaning of screw steamer

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

Questions about screw steamers

What is screw steamers the plural of?
Screw steamers is the plural of screw steamer.

Words near screw steamers in the dictionary

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  2. screw shoes
  3. screw stair
  4. screw stairs
  5. screw steamer
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  7. screw the pooch
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