steamship
nounUS /ˈstimˌʃɪp/
Etymology From steam + ship.
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A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
- Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.1962 April 23, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
- The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN:
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- India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- steamship round