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paddle steamer
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SS Natchez IX Sternwheeler paddleboat in Louisiana ADvance.jpg|thumb| The Advance American Civil War blockade-runner Sidewheel steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft ...
WordNet
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n. a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels [syn: paddle-wheeler ]
Wiktionary
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n. (context nautical English) A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paddle \Pad"dle\, n. [See Paddle , v. i.] An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling ...
Usage examples of paddle steamer.
The paddle steamer moved slowly, surely, down the River, branches occasionally trailing on the roof of the bridge.
Reflected from the gently waving surface, the rusted paddle steamer became a shimmering white dream ship resplendent with electric jewels.
A couple of cargo schooners and a paddle steamer were docked in the river near the swimmers, along with the Fulton Ferry, the station of which stood next to the fish market.
He set out for Mandinaung the following morning on the paddle steamer.
He had sailed once on an afternoon's excursion in an old paddle steamer from Wevmouth to Lul worth Cove, a distance of six miles.
Pitt took one last, longing look at the walking beams of the old paddle steamer and wished he could have sailed it through the Panama Canal and up the Potomac River to Washington.
The design and shape reminded Pitt of an old Mississippi side paddle steamer, like the famed Robert E.