steamborne

Meanings

adjectivesteamborne (not comparable)

not comparableCarried or transported by steam.
These droplets carry a rich load of dissolved solids which get steamborne thereafter.
2000, P. Chattopadhyay, Boiler Operation Engineering, →ISBN, page 511
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These runs indicated the efficiency of sea water in removing airborne and steamborne radioactive contaminants.
1958 April 15, M. J. McGoff, S. J. Rodgers, “Simulation of Container Venting Under Sea Water”, in Nuclear Science Abstracts, volume 12, number 7, page 539
[…] nitro and amino compounds do not contribute an airborne hazard under normal ambient temperature conditions. Steamborne mists do, however, require special attention.
1974, A. L. Linch, Biological Monitoring for Industrial Chemical Exposure Control, →ISBN, page 50
not comparablerail transportAssociated with or transported by a steam locomotive.
It sent us flying, flattened, light as ideas, back on the platform, the Y6B Mallet compound rolling through southbound, steamborne, out of Roanoke.
1999, Mary Stewart Hammond, Out of Canaan, →ISBN, page 4
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[…] but, as in the case of steamborne trade, exemption from duty is accorded as regards the products of the leased territory and goods imported to be consumed therein.
1908 January 2, “Tariff Changes and Customs Regulations”, in The Board of Trade Journal, volume 60, number 579, page 24
Imperialists such as Hardinge and Dalhousie or railway promoters such as Chapman and Stephenson, however, were not the only ones who believed in the idea of steamborne social progress.
2017 November 28, Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency - A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, page 2