Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wheel placed at the side, as of a machine or a vehicle; specifically, one of a pair of paddle-wheels at the sides of a steam-vessel, as distinguished from the single stern-wheel used on some steamboats.
- Having side-wheels: as, a side-wheel steamer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
paddle wheel on each side; said ofsteam vessels .
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Examples
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The New York was a side-wheel steamer that foundered during a hurricane about 60 miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana in 1846.
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The New York was a side-wheel steamer that foundered during a hurricane about 60 miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana in 1846.
1846 Shipwreck Yields Southern Gold and Capped Bust Halves : Coin Collecting News 2008
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The New York was a side-wheel steamer that foundered during a hurricane about 60 miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana in 1846.
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The New York was a side-wheel steamer that foundered during a hurricane about 60 miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana in 1846.
1846 Shipwreck Yields Southern Gold and Capped Bust Halves : Coin Collecting News 2008
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The next major technological advance was the side-wheel mower, which had wheels on either side of the cutting cylinder that directly drove it.
Cutting grass down to size Edward Willett 2006
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The next major technological advance was the side-wheel mower, which had wheels on either side of the cutting cylinder that directly drove it.
Archive 2006-05-07 Edward Willett 2006
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Sam packed a trunk, and on March 11, the cash from Bliss in his pocket, he boarded the side-wheel steamer Henry Chauncey for Panama.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Sam packed a trunk, and on March 11, the cash from Bliss in his pocket, he boarded the side-wheel steamer Henry Chauncey for Panama.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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A side-wheel river steamer, the USS Black Hawk served as the flagship of the Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War.
Steam Machines 1998
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Docked closer inshore on the pier was a two-masted, black-hulled schooner with a single side-wheel and a thin runnel.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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