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Noun:

  • A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
  • Australia obsolete A food made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices. Popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s.
  • A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
  • A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
  • A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
  • cookware A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
  • food A dish of steamed clams.
  • horse racing A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.
  • obsolete A steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913).
  • The '''steamer''' duck; a genus (''Tachyeres'') of ducks in the bird family ''Anatidae''. All of the four species occur in South America, and all except one are flightless.

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