单词 | steam-vessel |
释义 | steam-vesseln.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > chambers or reservoirs receiver1702 hot well1729 catchwater drain1744 steam-vessel1769 explosion chamber1839 uptake1839 smoke-box1846 combustion chamber1854 receiver1873 tube-case1890 1769 Dr. Small in Muirhead Invent. Watt (1854) I. 37 The vessels mentioned in this paragraph you call steam-vessels. 1798 Count Rumford in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 464 The phial..was exposed one hour to the heat of boiling water in a steam-vessel. 1804 A. Woolf in Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. VI. 88 The smaller steam vessel, or cylinder, must be a measure for the larger. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 69 Surface of steam-pipe, or other steam-vessel, heated to 200°. 2. A steamboat or steamship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine steamboat1787 steamship1819 smoker1825 steamer1825 steam-vessel1825 smoke-boat1867 S.S.1868 puffer1901 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 163 In the ports of Brest and Bordeaux six steam-vessels are building of an extraordinary size. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xx. 393 Most of the steam-vessels now used in our trade could be converted easily into men-of-war. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. v. 658 River steam-vessels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1769 |
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