1. steamer - Noun
2. steamer - Verb
A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
The steamer duck.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. David Benioff
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. George Bernard Shaw
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me. Mary Gordon
If I were black and young, no steamer could revolve its wheels fast enough to convey me to the dark continent. I should go where my color was the correct thing, and leave these pale faces to work out their own destiny. Frances Willard
‘Light shafted obliquely on it.' ( The Steamer ) Amit Chaudhuri
‘To the far left, above your shoulder's gentle/curve, like golden pods, the sodium vapour/lights in the naval dockyard ... And before us,/a continuous, unreal flare of fire defined/the horizon's extremity, a stain on a brow.' ( The Steamer ) Amit Chaudhuri