Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steamboat with a paddle wheel on each side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A side-wheel steamboat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a paddle steamer having a paddle wheel on each side
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Examples
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At first Luke thought that perhaps it resembled a side-wheeler, but there was no indication that such a vessel had ever sunk in that location.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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At first Luke thought that perhaps it resembled a side-wheeler, but there was no indication that such a vessel had ever sunk in that location.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Marsh's career and company is saved, and he is soon the captain of the Fevre Dream, the greatest side-wheeler to ever run the river.
Wertzone Classics: Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin Adam Whitehead 2009
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After opening his first casino aboard his side-wheeler, the President, in Davenport in 1991, he took President Casinos Inc. public and later opened additional gambling boats in St. Louis and Biloxi, Miss.
Restless Entrepreneur Spawned Empire, From Gambling Boats to Vatican Trinkets 2009
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Marsh's career and company is saved, and he is soon the captain of the Fevre Dream, the greatest side-wheeler to ever run the river.
Archive 2009-05-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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Some were steam-powered: side-wheeler tugs, hauling barges and pulling the big ships into the harbor; ferries crisscrossing from Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem Village, New Jersey, Staten Island; huge commercial and navy steamers—all belching smoke from their tall black stacks.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Some were steam-powered: side-wheeler tugs, hauling barges and pulling the big ships into the harbor; ferries crisscrossing from Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem Village, New Jersey, Staten Island; huge commercial and navy steamers—all belching smoke from their tall black stacks.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Some were steam-powered: side-wheeler tugs, hauling barges and pulling the big ships into the harbor; ferries crisscrossing from Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem Village, New Jersey, Staten Island; huge commercial and navy steamers—all belching smoke from their tall black stacks.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Some were steam-powered: side-wheeler tugs, hauling barges and pulling the big ships into the harbor; ferries crisscrossing from Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem Village, New Jersey, Staten Island; huge commercial and navy steamers—all belching smoke from their tall black stacks.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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A 1,428-ton side-wheeler with two masts, she had patrolled against blockade runners around the Chesapeake Bay as a Federal gunship during the war.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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