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单词 steam-vessel
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steam-vesseln.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsteam-vessel.
1. A vessel for holding steam; esp. one in which steam is condensed for working an engine. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > chambers or reservoirs
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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.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine
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steamship1819
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S.S.1868
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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).
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