Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The box or sheath, of curved upper outline, which covers a paddle-wheel of a side-wheel steamer, to protect it and to keep it from throwing water on board the vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel
- noun a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel
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Examples
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The stout old pilot was the real skipper; and now that the vessel had come to anchor, he turned from his lighter duties to the grave pastime of the day, and fished earnestly through a large hole in the paddlebox, -- the porgies that came to his allurements arriving at their destination by a series of flapping manoeuvres from blade to blade of the wheel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon.
The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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When the steamer returned she had scarcely a vestige of bulwark or paddlebox left: all had been smashed and carried away by the force of the sea.
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