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Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.

Launch :: Launch (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like..

Horse Power :: Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second

Steam :: Steam (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler..

Smokestack :: Smokestack (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc..

Steamed :: Steam (n.) Any exhalation.

Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler..

Wash-off :: Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

Texas :: Texas (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc..

Injector :: Injector (n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor..

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

Lacashire Boiler :: Lacashire boiler () A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

Passenger :: Passenger (n.) A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc..

Exhaust :: Exhaust (n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

Uptake :: Uptake (n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward..

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another..

Subsidies :: Subsidize (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line..

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