Definition of "steamers" [steamers]

• Plural form of steamer. (noun)

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• "Mediterranean in English steamers, in the same way as these were brought from Malta to Gibraltar in the Prometheus — as, forsooth, servants and passengers."
• "One of the Baddock steamers is leaving for Buenos Ayres the same afternoon, and I can arrange with the captain."
• "You creatures of to-day, approaching it in one of your clumsy new-fashioned fire-driven canoes that you call steamers, must admire immensely its conical peak, as it stands out silhouetted against the glowing horizon in the deep red glare of a sub-tropical Atlantic sunset."