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Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.

andled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.] -- Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. -- Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plan…

nd steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow…

A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.

running races. (b) A breed of horses remarkable for swiftness in running. (c) (Zoöl.) The steamer duck.

A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

icate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. Shak.

by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc. [Western U.S.] Knight.

king down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

st, a sob arose. Jeffrey. At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer. C. Mackay.

A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk. -- Twin-screw steamer, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel.

Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set, but especially of a steamer using her sails only, as distinguished from one under steam. Under steam and canvas signifies that a vessel is using both means of propulsion. (b) (Mil.) Provided with, or sheltered in, tents. -- Under fire, exposed to an…