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steamers

[stee-mer]

steam·er

[stee-mer]
noun
1.
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
2.
a person or thing that steams.
3.
a device, pot, or container in which something is steamed.
verb (used without object)
5.
to travel by steamship.

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Steamers is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1805–15; steam + -er1
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