Talk:by steam
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See steam#Noun sense 4,5. DCDuring TALK 01:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
- Which you just added. Please exemplify in a phrase that does not use "by". DAVilla 06:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- 1845, Frederick Knight Hunt, The Rhine: Its Scenery, and Historical and Legendary Associations [a/k/a The Rhine Book], reprint, →ISBN, page 5,
- The traveller who decides upon visiting the Rhine will do well to take steam to Antwerp.
- 1845, Frederick Knight Hunt, The Rhine: Its Scenery, and Historical and Legendary Associations [a/k/a The Rhine Book], reprint, →ISBN, page 5,
- —msh210℠ 17:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Note, though, that take steam seems to have been an idiom meaning be tugged or something like that. So maybe that's the idiom being used in the quotation I just posted, and it's not an example of "steam" (per se, in the senses required).—msh210℠ 17:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Kept, no consensus, plus we have by sail (and I'm voting keep). Mglovesfun (talk) 12:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)