paddle box

noun

a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.

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His head struck the paddle box; the wheel spun him round as he fell into the water.

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Only the iron guards of the captain's gangway were twisted; the paddle boxes had suffered, the frames were bruised, but the paddles had not a float missing.

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We read the name McKim on her paddle boxes.

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And the very next steamboat from the lower country, the great heavy Duke of Orleans, with a green half moon of lattice work in each paddle box, brought the convalescent Henry and his friend.

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There were good steps to go up, on the side of the paddle box.

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