side-wheel

[ sahyd-hweel, -weel ]

adjective

1. having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.

Other Words From

• side-wheeler noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of side-wheel¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

The Nantucket was a small side-wheel steamer of light draft, and we were able to run in and out over the bar at will.

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In the following winter Fulton completed a model side-wheel boat.

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Such engines are used to some extent in Europe, and they have been adopted in the United States navy for side-wheel gunboats.

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The "Nashville" was an old side-wheel passenger-steamer, of which the Confederates had made a privateer.

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It is a side-wheel boat, the wheels being very large, but not dipping far into the water.

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