sidewheel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sidewheel
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“A sidewheel steamer!” piped up a boy’s voice from the gallery.
From Gold by Stewart Edward White
After dark last evening the old-fashioned sidewheel steamer Gussie of the Morgan line, with troops and cargo mentioned, was near the Cuban coast.
From The Boys of '98 by James Otis
Far out one of the sidewheel boats of the Queensborough-Antwerp line was heading directly into the wind and making heavy weather of it.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
A big, sidewheel steamer, spotlessly white, with tiers of decks that towered above the sheds and blazed with light, was receiving the last of her passengers and preparing to cast off from her moorings.
From The Intriguers by Harold Bindloss
He approached cautiously, knowing that the men on the vessel would be on guard against secret attack, and presently he discerned the outlines of a sidewheel steamer, converted into a warship and bearing guns.
From The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
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