A once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.

plural of steam pipe

Alternative form of steampipe.

(rail transport) The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives. / A period of industrialisation when steam power was used.

(engineering, nautical, rail transport) To build up a useful head (pressure level) of steam in a steam-engined vehicle's boiler.

simple past tense and past participle of raise steam

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of raise steam

present participle of raise steam

plural of steam-engine

simple past tense and past participle of gain steam