live steam

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   steam coming from a boiler at full pressure

   Broadersteam

Questions about live steam

What does live steam mean?

live steam means "steam coming from a boiler at full pressure".

Is live steam a common word?

live steam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.