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Stern-wheel

Stern-wheel \Stern"-wheel`\, a. Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

Usage examples of "stern-wheel".

That night, the stern-wheeled tub, the Amenhotep, lurched like a turtle on its back into the sands by Beni Hassan.

But the little stern-wheel steamboat, Moccasin Blossom, carried some local freight and passengers every other day, and this turned out to be one of those days.