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Definition of Steam-powered
1. Adjective. Powered by a steam engine. "A steam-powered locomotive"
Definition of Steam-powered
1. Adjective. Using steam power. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steam-powered
Literary usage of Steam-powered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery by David J. Jeremy (1990)
"Several steam-powered cotton mills started in New England in the late 1820s, ...
concentrates on the impact of steam-powered cotton mills (notably the ..."
2. Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery by David J. Jeremy (1990)
"Several steam-powered cotton mills started in New England in the late 1820s, most
of them in Rhode lsland where by 1832 four were under construction or in ..."
3. The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil by Robert W. Tolf (1976)
"A noted geology professor had said much the same thing in 1863: there was no oil
beyond sixty or seventy feet and the new steam- powered drills would prove ..."
4. Confucian Feminist: Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978) by Baosun Zeng, Thomas L. Kennedy (2002)
"From the Empress of Asia that could carry more than 2000 people, to a Yangzi
steamer, to a steam-powered tug pulling a boat, to this tiny row boat was a ..."
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