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steam

/stiːm/ adjective C2
  1. Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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If it’s your liver, there’s the _Rambler_ down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1
The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 44 · B2
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2
And Peppino placed his pan on the ground, so that the steam rose directly under the nostrils of Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1078 · C1

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