steamer

English

Two types of steamer (cooking appliance)

Etymology

From steam +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmə(r)

Noun

steamer (plural steamers)

1. (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
2. A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
3. A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
4. A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
5. A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
6. A dish of steamed clams.
7. Any species of the duck genus Tachyeres, of which all four species occur in South America, and three are flightless.
8. (Australia, food, obsolete) A food made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices; popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s.
   • a. 1864, “Melville”, Australia, quoted in 1864, Edward Abbott, The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as Well as for the ‘Upper Ten Thousand’, London, in turn quoted in 1998, Colin Bannerman, et al., Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia′s Culinary History, National Library of Australia (publisher), ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 14,

     Of all the dishes ever brought to table, nothing equals that of the steamer.

9. (obsolete) A steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913).
10. (horse racing) A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.

Derived terms

• Cleveland steamer

Translations

cooking appliance

• Arabic: قدر بخاري (ar) (qidr bukhaariy) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸籠 (cmn), 蒸笼 (cmn) (zhēnglóng)

• Finnish: painekattila, höyrykeitin
• French: marmite à vapeur (fr) f, cuit-vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfkochtopf (de) m, Dampftopf (de) m
• Hungarian: pároló (hu)
• Japanese: 蒸し器 (ja), 蒸器 (ja) (むしき, mushiki)

• Kamba: stima
• Kikuyu: stima
• Kis: stima
• Luhya: estima
• Luo: stima
• Meru: stima
• Russian: пароварка (ru) (parovárka) f
• Swahili: stima (sw)

vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam

• Arabic: باخرة (ar) (baakhira) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽船 (cmn) (qìchuán), 輪船 (cmn), 轮船 (cmn) (lúnchuán)

• Finnish: höyrypesuri, höyrytin

• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfer (de) m
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen)
• Russian: пароход (ru) (paroxód) m

steamship or steamboat

• Arabic: باخرة (ar) (baakhira) f, سفينة بخارية (ar) (safiina bukhaaríyya) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽船 (cmn) (qìchuán), 輪船 (cmn), 轮船 (cmn) (lúnchuán)

• Czech: parník (cs) m
• Danish: dampskib (da) n
• Dutch: stoomboot (nl)
• Finnish: höyrylaiva (fi), höyryalus (fi)
• French: bateau à vapeur (fr) m
• German: Dampfer (de) m, Dampfschiff (de) n
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (el) (atmóploio) n
• Hungarian: gőzhajó (hu), gőzös (hu)
• Indonesian: kapal uap (id)

• Italian: nave a vapore (it) f
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (ja) (じょうきせん, jōkisen)
• Jèrriais: stînmeux m
• Low German: Damper (nds)
• Macedonian: параброд (mk) (párabrod) m
• Norwegian: dampskip (no) n
• Polish: parowiec (pl) m
• Russian: пароход (ru) (paroxód) m
• Serbo-Croatian: parobrod (sh) m, пароброд (sh) m
• Spanish: barco de vapor (es) m
• Swedish: ångfartyg (sv) n
• Ukrainian: пароплав (uk) (paropláv) m

traction engine

• Finnish: lokomobiili, höyrytraktori

• Hungarian: lokomobil (hu)

wetsuit

steamed clams

• Finnish: höyrytetyt simpukat

steamer duck

See also

• Tachyeres on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Tachyeres

References

• steamer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• reteams, streame, teamers