Definition of Steam line

1. Noun. A pipe conducting steam.

Exact synonyms: Steam Pipe
Generic synonyms: Pipage, Pipe, Piping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steam Line

steam condensers
steam cracker
steam cracking
steam distillation
steam engine
steam engines
steam fitting
steam hammer
steam hammers
steam heat
steam heater
steam heaters
steam heating
steam iron
steam irons
steam line (current term)
steam locomotive
steam locomotives
steam organ
steam pipe
steam power
steam radio
steam roller
steam rollers
steam room
steam ship
steam ships
steam shovel
steam shovels
steam table

Literary usage of Steam line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Regnault supposed that this must be due to errors of measurement, and drew his steam line so as to coincide with the hoar-frost line ; but it has since been ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The company had a boiler house, from which a two- inch steam line, belonging to it, ran across the street to its said oil well. ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"General commerce. , *- - Special commerce. • I860. 1859. 1858. I860. 18*9. 1858. NEW steam line TO EUROPE. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... the intersection of the curves was found to be distinctly indicated by them. At thu point the steam line, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... employed in navigation wat turned into developing railroad facilities, and coastwise steam linos. An effort to establish a European steam line failed. ..."

6. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1911)
"A separator was installed in the steam line and the line was taken from the top of ... A water jacket was now placed on the steam line with a $-in. water ..."

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