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Side-wheeler   /saɪd-wˈilər/   Listen
Side-wheeler

noun
1.
A paddle steamer having a paddle wheel on each side.





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... shipping. There were a couple of schooners used in the china-clay trade lying at the quayside; at anchor was a barquentine, a big bluff-bellied tramp of a creature, black with coaldust, and beyond her again what was still a rare sight in those parts—a steamer. She was a side-wheeler, with a thin raking funnel, and was square-rigged on her fore-mast, fore-and-aft on her mizzen. A little crowd stood on the end of the quay to stare at her, and it was on her that Ishmael too fixed his eyes; then he scrambled ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse


Words linked to "Side-wheeler" :   paddle steamer, paddle-wheeler


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