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Steaminess :: Steamer (n.) The steamer duck.

Saloon :: Saloon (n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat..

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer..

Hogframe :: Hogframe (n.) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback..

Reek :: Reek (n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake..

Condensation :: Condensation (n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water..

Outgoing :: Outgoing (a.) Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer..

Entrain :: Entrain (v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine..

Dome :: Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc..

Nozzle :: Nozzle (n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler..

Steamer :: Steamer (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture..

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Steamed :: Steam (n.) Any exhalation.

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..

Exhalation :: Exhalation (n.) The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation..

Pulsometer :: Pulsometer (n.) A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump..

Gasket :: Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps..

Generator :: Generator (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc..

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