sidewheel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sidewheel
Example Sentences
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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
We then engaged a large sidewheel steamer, twice our length from us on the port bow, firing three shots into her with telling effect, when she made a run for it.
From Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker by James Henry Rochelle
Of these steam frigates, six are screw, and three sidewheel.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
We marched to the levee and from there on board the big sidewheel steamer, Empress.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
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