Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boat, especially a steamship, propelled through the water by paddle wheels on each side or by one paddle wheel astern.
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- noun A
boat propelled by apaddle wheel
Etymologies
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Examples
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He made a frustrated noise and turned to face the front of the paddleboat.
Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010
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Nonetheless, those of us who have braved the waters of Lake Prospect Park by paddleboat know, it can be rented by the hour.
Fully Loaded: Excessive Packaging BikeSnobNYC 2010
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He said he and his 19-year-old son would slice them open with a knife from a paddleboat.
Manure Raises New Stink Lauren Etter 2010
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On the other side of its levee today sit the cypress trees and swampy wetlands of an oxbow lake named Kate Adams, in honor of a popular paddleboat from Memphis that used to dock there, back when “there” was the river.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways.
Archive 2008-03-01 The Nag 2008
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He made a frustrated noise and turned to face the front of the paddleboat.
Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010
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He said he and his 19-year-old son would slice them open with a knife from a paddleboat.
Manure Raises New Stink Lauren Etter 2010
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He said he and his 19-year-old son would slice them open with a knife from a paddleboat.
Manure Raises New Stink Lauren Etter 2010
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Chuck had started piloting again on weekends in Tunica, driving dinner tours on a family-owned paddleboat pleasure cruiser called the Tunica Queen.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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Were trekking across the sand and toward a block of beach layered with windsurf boards and sails and even a paddleboat or two.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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