You try lifting up a steamer trunk containing an angry lap dancer.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And they said at the bank that it had come by a steamer that was delayed by bad weather.
Frances Hodgson Burnett Emily Fox-Seton (1901)
Take a trip on the world's oldest paddle steamer.
The Sun (2014)
The Waverley paddle steamer still calls to take people on trips along the coast.
The Sun (2014)
The first great change came about when their parents took them out for a day trip down the river in a paddle steamer.
Diana Wynne Jones CHARMED LIFE (1977)
It is to underscore a plain but often overlooked fact about the stuff that sits in the steamer trunk at Sears.
Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987)
In many an attic somewhere, there is a large steamer trunk filled with all sorts of practical odds and ends.
Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987)
Then I looked down over the lip and saw this little old paddle steamer.
The Sun (2010)
I served as a sailor on the Waverley paddle steamer.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He hauled his vast collection to wartime summits at Yalta and Casablanca in a steamer trunk.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
No, this was the terminus for the steamer across the river to a second town - from where the railway did indeed depart.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
steamer
British English: steamer NOUN
A steamer is a ship that has an engine powered by steam.
American English: steamer
Brazilian Portuguese: navio a vapor
Chinese: 汽轮
European Spanish: buque de vapor
French: vapeur
German: Dampfer
Italian: nave a vaporeno
Japanese: 汽船
Korean: 증기선
European Portuguese: navio a vapor
Latin American Spanish: buque de vapor
All related terms of 'steamer'
steamer rug
a heavy woolen blanket used by passengers in deck chairs on shipboard to cover the lap and legs
steamer chair
a type of reclinable chair with a wooden or wicker frame, sometimes upholstered , designed for relaxing in
steamer trunk
a broad , low, rectangular trunk , originally designed to fit under a bunk on shipboard
tramp steamer
→ tramp (sense 8 )
paddle steamer
a large boat that is pushed through the water by the movement of large wheels that are attached to its sides
pleasure steamer
a boat powered by steam , used for recreational purposes
clochard
a tramp
tramp
A tramp is a person who has no home or job , and very little money . Tramps go from place to place, and get food or money by asking people or by doing casual work.