Steamer may refer to:

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Steamboat A steamboat is a boat that is marine propulsion, propelled primarily by marine steam engine, steam power, typically driving propellers or Paddle steamer, paddlewheels. The term ''steamboat'' is used to refer to small steam-powered vessels worki ...

, smaller, insular boat on lakes and rivers *

Steamship A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. The first steamships ...

, ocean-faring ship * Screw steamer, steamboat or ship that uses "screws" (propellers) *

Steam yacht A steam yacht is a class of luxury or commercial yacht with primary or secondary steam propulsion in addition to the sails usually carried by yachts. Origin of the name The English steamboat entrepreneur George Dodd (1783–1827) used the term ...

, luxury or commercial yacht *

Paddle steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wh ...

, steamboat or ship with a paddlewheel *

Steam car A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE). ECEs have a low ...

, generic term for a car powered by a steam engine * Stanley Steamer, model of steam-powered car *

Steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat ...

, locomotive propelled by steam-operated pistons

Sports

* Steamer Flanagan (1881–1947), Major League Baseball player * Steamer Horning (1892–1982), American football player * Steamer Maxwell (1890–1975), Canadian amateur ice-hockey player * Stan Smyl (born 1958), captain of the Vancouver Canucks, nicknamed "the Steamer"

Other uses

* Steamer (milk), a flavored milk drink * Steamer (wetsuit), covers the torso and arms and legs * Steamer trunk, a type of luggage * '' The Steamer'', an album by jazz saxophonist Stan Getz *

Clothes steamer A clothes steamer, also called a garment steamer or simply a steamer, is a device used for quickly removing wrinkles from clothing, garments and textile, fabrics with the use of high temperature steam. They can for example be used to straighten w ...

Food steamer A food steamer or steam cooker is a Small appliance, small kitchen appliance used to cook or prepare various foods with steam heat by means of holding the food in a closed vessel reducing steam escape. This manner of cooking is called steaming. ...

Fastball The fastball is the most common type of pitch (baseball), pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball. Its distinctive feature is its high speed. "Power pitchers," such as former major leaguers Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, relied on the ...

, nickname for the baseball pitch *

Soft-shell clam Soft-shell clams (American English) or Sand gaper (British English/Europe), scientific name ''Mya arenaria'', popularly called "steamers", "softshells", "piss clams", "Ipswich clams", or "Essex clams", are a species of edible saltwater clam, a ...

, nickname for soft-shell clams *

Tachyeres The steamer ducks are a genus (''Tachyeres'') of ducks in the family Anatidae. All of the four species occur at the southern cone of South America in Chile and Argentina, and all except the flying steamer duck are flightless; even this one speci ...

, steamer ducks

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