steamer

steamer
/stee"meuhr/, n.
1. something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
2. a person or thing that steams.
3. a device, pot, or container in which something is steamed.
v.i.
5. to travel by steamship.
[1805-15; STEAM + -ER1]

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