screw steamer
noun1
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 surpassing those of the most magnificent screw-steamer, that highest result of our civilisation.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 195: