Word Meanings - BANKSIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

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• STEAM
  smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
• SLOPE
  1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings
• STEAMBOAT
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• STEAM ENGINE
  An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
• SLOPENESS
  State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.
• STEAMSHIP
  A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
• STEAMY
  Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.
• STEAMINESS
  The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• STEAMBOATING
  The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• STEAMER
  The steamer duck. Steamer duck , a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also
• SLOPEWISE
  Obliquely. Carew.
• TRUNK STEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• TURRET STEAMER
  A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
• ASLOPE
  Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.