The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steamer \Steam"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
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(Zo["o]l.) The steamer duck.
Steamer duck (Zo["o]l.), a sea duck ( Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side-wheel duck.
WordNet
Usage examples of "race horse".
I told her that only last week we had bought the steeplechaser which had just won, and it was our first ever race horse, and she was so interested and explained that she was a trainer’.
That Psychlo minesite down there is pretty smashed, but it had a dictionary and some other books in a fireproof safe and they've been going like a race horse ever since.
For instance, a race horse trainer buys horse food from the forage merchants.
Picard, who was to grow old breeding ze race horse, playing ze feedle!
And the referee was going around the ring like a race horse, yelling for the cops, the army, the navy or what have you!
Upon recalling her, his imagination always saw a race horse —.
In the yellow glare of the Del Monte lights the buckskin looked very little like a race horse.