paddle boat
- a variation of pedal boat.
Example Sentences
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The park, along the banks of the Anacostia River near the Peace Cross, provides a paved waterside walkway, a fishing pier, and canoe, kayak and paddle-boat rentals.
From Washington Post
Anxious to be in the warm and sunny clime of Africa, I now lost no time in getting on board a paddle-boat of sorts for my destination.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie
Exactly one hundred years—from 1707 to 1807—separate the first paddle-boat of Papin from the first steamboat of Fulton.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
Was it possible, he asked himself, that the wretched little paddle-boat was making for Nagara or some of the other Dardanelles forts?
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
The boat became a galley, a ship, a paddle-boat, a screw steamer, and the world was opened up for colonization and civilization.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
