screw steamer

noun

A boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.

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Meanings

nounscrew steamer (plural screw steamers)

plural screw steamers

  1. A boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.
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    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
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