Crossword-Solution: STEAMIN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And he says: "I'd jist liftit it oot o' the pot, And there it lay steamin' and savoury hot, When sudden I dooked at the fleech o' a shell, And it--_DRAPPED ON THE HAGGIS AND DINGED IT TAE HELL._" And oh but the lads were fair taken aback; Then sudden the order wis passed tae attack, And up from the trenches like lions they leapt, And on through the nicht like a torrent they swept.

Fail there -- ye've time to weld your shaft -- ay, eat it, ere ye're spoke; Or make Kerguelen under sail -- three jiggers burned wi' smoke! An' home again, the Rio run: it's no child's play to go Steamin' to bell for fourteen days o' snow an' floe an' blow -- The bergs like kelpies overside that girn an' turn an' shift Whaur, grindin' like the Mills o' God, goes by the big South drift.

Tew see the grit Of thet peart little chunk of a tough mustang! Not a buck nor a shy!--he gev a snort Thet shook the foam on his steamin' hide, An' leap'd along--Wal, pard, ye bet I'd a healthy show fur a lively ride.

What could stop us? I grit my teeth; Think I pray'd--ain't sartin of thet; When, whizzin' an' singin', thar came the rush Right past my face of a lariat! "Bully fur you, old pard!" I roar'd, Es it whizz'd roun' the leader's steamin' chest, An' I wheel'd the mustang fur all he was wuth Kerslap on the side of the old steer's breast.

Simultaneous there come up three o’ those dirty engine-room objects which we call ‘tiffies,’ an’ a stoker or two with orders to repair her steamin’-gadgets.