stern-wheeler

noun

1. See sidewheeler
   a vessel, esp a riverboat, propelled by a large paddle wheel at the stern Compare sidewheeler

Example Sentences

His boat was a “stern-wheeler,” and is stated to have been capable of steaming five miles an hour.

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In this model Fitch shifted the paddles from the sides to the rear, thus anticipating in principle the modern stern-wheeler.

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There was another boat that left Paducah the same time we did, the "Masonic Gem," a stern-wheeler about the same size of our boat.

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A type of river steamer which will amaze the American is an old stern-wheeler run by man power.

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She was a small stern-wheeler, not unlike the boats which run on the upper Missouri.

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