What does screw steamer mean?

screw steamer

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

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A boat or ship powered by a steam-driven propellor.

"The crew were all civil and good-tempered, and with very little discipline everything went on smoothly, and the vessel was kept very clean and in pretty good order, so that on the whole I was much delighted with the trip, and was inclined to rate the luxuries of the semi-barbarous prau as surpassing those of the most magnificent screw-steamer, that highest result of our civilisation."

screw steamers (plural)

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