A ship propelled by steam. Also attrib.
1819. Shelley, Lett., Prose Wks. 1888, II. 311. Every body here is talking of a steam-ship which is building at Leghorn.
1821. Scott, Fram. Lett., 6 July (1894), II. xvii. 121. We can now make the journey in the steam-ship within sixty hours.
1901. D. B. Hall & Ld. A. Osborne, Sunshine & Surf, i. 1. You were just now bewailing … that there was such a beastly sameness about steamship travelling.
1909. Gt. Central Rlwy. Rep., 6 Aug., 5. Steamship receipts show a heavy decline.
