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v. - Warm by means of vapor.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Britishers have slept off your spring mattresses, I'd say, light out for the city and steam-heat afore the snow comes.
  • On the large scale the grains are made by forcing the paste through sieves, dried by steam-heat and polished by rolling against each other in a barrel.
  • And then, in that steam-heat, she began to birch me, very lightly at first, up the backs of my legs and to my shoulders, and then back again, harder and harder all the...
  • One cannot put steam-heat in houses where Queen Elizabeth slept.
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