(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with stealers, aggressive children tended to be younger and more immature males, and to come from stressed families with a history of mental illness.
(2) The settling for the sentences was one that an American producer would have built for a film about a British trial: a courtroom built in the days when sheep stealers were hanged outside, 200 years ago.
(3) "Most people my age either know nothing about her, or only know she was a milk stealer and won the Falklands war, but still don't have any opinion.
(4) It is also true that the speech wasn't designed to be a scene-stealer.
(5) Kids will enjoy Oregon Zoo and Children’s Museum, but the scene-stealers are the Japanese Garden and the International Rose Test Garden.
(6) Photograph: Misha Janette Harcoza serves up fashion quirks with an eclectic selection of accessories like necklaces made from melted rubber balls and bonsai trees fashioned into watches, but the show-stealer is the interior – featuring a floor-to-ceiling bouncy-ball dispenser, a ceramic purple poodle guarding the stairs, and carpet patterned like Lego blocks.
(7) So long, ladies!” declares the scheming man-stealer Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) in one of the film’s many venomous put-downs.
(8) In his latest blog post, Sanad reiterated his refusal to engage with the military's legal "theatrics", saying: "I don't beg for my freedom from a group of killers and homeland-stealers."
(9) David Cameron’s early social-justice, hoodie-hugging , greenest-ever, socially liberal scene-stealers clung to him, even as he led the country into a dark tunnel of extreme austerity.
(10) 3.08am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 1, bottom of the 5th No momentum here, Avila throws out Jacoby, one of the most efficient base stealers in the league, trying to get to second.
(11) Despite coming from a long line of pillaging sheep stealers, I've never actually nicked something from a supermarket self-service checkout.
Steamer
Definition:
(n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
(n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
(n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
(n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
(n.) The steamer duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 Using a bamboo or metal steamer, cook for about 12 to 15 minutes (depending on size).
(2) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(3) Interrupting the avian wall of metal are reclaimed Tibetan cooking vessels: a kettle, a wok, a cheap aluminum steamer.
(4) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
(5) He never got on with his overbearing mother, Rosalind, but idealised his father Edward, who, as captain of the former passenger steamer Rawalpindi, had gone down with his ship and 263 men after the attack by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in November 1939.
(6) His grandfather was a guard on the Flying Scotsman and his father started as a purser on the Clyde steamers, later rising to white-collar status in British Rail's property division.
(7) We are turning everything back to basics, back to the way it was when it was a pub over 100 years ago.” • hovellingboatinn.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs 11.30am–9.30pm, Fri and Sat 11.30am-11pm, Sun noon-4pm The Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate Named after a two-funnelled paddle steamer that plied the route from Ramsgate to France at the beginning of the 20th century, the Conqueror’s walls are covered in black and white photos of the ship and its crew.
(8) 7 Place the pudding on to the steamer rack or makeshift steaming platform.
(9) They took a steamer on the Thames for Bordeaux, then began to walk up the valley of the Garonne, sleeping in fields, singing and drawing portraits for money.
(10) The gelatinization of starch granules proceeded faster in the soaked rice and by the excess water method than that in the nonsoaked rice and by the steamer method.
(11) 4 Turn on the steamer or place your improvised steaming pan over a medium heat.
(12) The look is very much that which might have graced the biceps of tough postwar sailors who docked their tramp steamers in Pacific ports and drank rum all the way to the tattoo parlour.
(13) To improvise a stove-top steamer, fill a large pan with a 5-6cm of water and place a trivet or an inverted saucer in it (to keep the pudding basin from touching the base of the pan).
(14) Remember to top up the water in the steamer regularly throughout the cooking time.
(15) After a few seconds, when the milk has risen visibly, quickly submerge the steamer's tip, holding it half-way to the bottom of the jug to heat the milk until the side of the jug gets too hot to touch.
(16) Purge any water that's condensed in your steamer (if your steam becomes watery over time, your machine probably needs descaling).
(17) In this new world, less brave but maybe more mature, the person who controls the steamer calls the tune.
(18) Trains would take cross-Channel passengers to a pier with a hotel attached called Port Victoria, where they could catch steamers to Belgium and cut a few minutes from journey times offered by rival companies.
(19) Repeat the process with the rest of the momos, then transfer them all to a steamer set at a high heat.
(20) Serves 4-6 2 medium oranges, zested 125g unsalted butter, soft 125g dark brown soft sugar 2 large eggs 5-7cm root ginger, grated 3 tsp ground ginger 75g stem ginger, roughly chopped 125g plain flour 1½ tsp baking powder 1 Prepare a steamer (improvised, if necessary, using a trivet or metal pastry cutter in the bottom of a large, lidded saucepan), heating a few centimetres of water in it over a medium heat.