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Steamship line   /stˈimʃˌɪp laɪn/   Listen
Steamship line

noun
1.
A line responsible for the operation of a fleet of steamships.  Synonym: steamship company.






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"Steamship line" Quotes from Famous Books



... St. Helens to be the place. Here was to be the terminus of the steamship line from San Francisco. "Wasn't the company building this wharf?" "They wouldn't set sixty men to work on the dock unless they meant business." "Ships can't get up the Willamette—that's nothing but a creek. The big city is ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... three months' work," went on the bishop thoughtfully, but without a shade of self-satisfaction, "and the biggest subscription I got was a hundred pounds. The smallest was from the owner of a large steamship line. He gave me one of the Company's official prayer books—and I never before felt about the prayer book just as I did about that one. I was begging mostly in England, and traveled about like a sort of mitered mendicant, addressing missionary meetings. It was the ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan



Words linked to "Steamship line" :   line, fleet



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