steam-heat

English

Verb

steam-heat (third-person singular simple present steam-heats, present participle steam-heating, simple past and past participle steam-heated)

1. To heat with the use of steam.
   • 1961 April, Trains Illustrated, page 250, photo caption:

     Diesel traction on the "Golden Arrow" - diverted via Chatham because of Sunday engineering work in Sevenoaks Tunnel. The down train is diesel-hauled out of Victoria by Birmingham/Sulzer Type 3 No. D6500 and B.R./Sulzer Type 2 No. D5004 on January 28, 1961; the inner locomotive is provided to steam-heat the train.

Related terms

• steam heater

References

• “steam-heat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.