screw steamer

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screw steamer

noun screw steamers

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

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@misc{screw_steamer_2026,
  title = {screw steamer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/screw%20steamer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}