tramp steamer

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   a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

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   Broadersteamer

Questions about tramp steamer

What does tramp steamer mean?

tramp steamer means "a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule".

What is another word for tramp steamer?

Close synonyms include tramp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tramp steamer a common word?

tramp steamer 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.