ˈsteam-vessel
† 1. A vessel for holding steam; esp. one in which steam is condensed for working an engine. Obs.
| 1769 Dr. Small in Muirhead Invent. Watt (1854) I. 37 The vessels mentioned in this paragraph you call steam-vessels. 1798 Ct. Rumford in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 464 The phial..was exposed one hour to the heat of boiling water in a steam-vessel. 1804 A. Woolf in Repert. Arts etc. Ser. ii. 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.
| 1825 Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 163 In the ports of Brest and Bordeaux six steam-vessels are building of an extraordinary size. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xx. (1862) 393 Most of the steam-vessels now used in our trade could be converted easily into men-of-war. 1863 H. Cox Instit. iii. v. 658 River steam-vessels. |