paddle box

How to use paddle box in a sentence

• The Durande having settled down more on the larboard than on the starboard side, the right paddle-box was higher than the left.

  Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo

• The most rapid vessels are chosen for this service; they have the words, "United States Mail," painted on their paddle-box.

  Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) | Maximilian, Prinz von Wied

• We had a ladder with us which just reached from the top of our paddle-box to about two feet below the sides of the vessel.

  The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II | James H. Mapleson

• With these facts the Professor scrambled from the larboard paddle-box of the Hibernia.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I | Various

• So I went and sat down on the paddle-box and placed a boat hook at my side, to be ready should any one fall into the water.

  The Hero of the Humber | Henry Woodcock