side-wheel
adjective
having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
side-wheeler
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a word derived from
side-wheel.
Example Sentences
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Passage in those days meant boarding a steam-powered side-wheeler.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
In 1904, he purchased a side-wheeler, the Jane Moseley, and increased his stake in an amusement park in Prince George’s County called Notley Hall.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2015
On the Mississippi River in St. Louis, a McDonald's is housed in a floating reproduction of an 1880s side-wheeler, complete with brass-trimmed chandeliers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Perry County, where the population is just nine people per square mile, the Toad Suck Ferry, a side-wheeler operated by the state, moves lazily from willowed bank to willowed bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
The legs are used the same as paddles on a side-wheeler, as in the illustration.
From Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old by Frank Eugen Dalton
