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- noun a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels
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Examples
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It used to be the feature of an amusement park, but the park failed and nobody ever removed the paddle-wheeler.
Howard Norman: Howard Norman: How To Write A Love Triangle? Live One 2010
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It used to be the feature of an amusement park, but the park failed and nobody ever removed the paddle-wheeler.
Howard Norman: Howard Norman: How To Write A Love Triangle? Live One Howard Norman 2010
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It's well known that Disneyland's Mark Twain paddle-wheeler sank on its opening day, but it wasn't until Friday's first-hand report of the sinking of the Mark Twain that the facts were in the public record.
Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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(Earlier prototypes were weirder still: one that resembled a flying paddle-wheeler never managed to leave the ground.)
Flight Of Fancy 2007
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Built in the 1830s to slice the length of Indiana diagonally—connecting the Great Lakes steamer port of Michigan City with the Ohio River paddle-wheeler landing at Madison—it ran through Shelbyville two-thirds of the way down.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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