sidewheeler

/ ˈsaɪdˌwiːlə /

noun

1. a vessel, esp a river boat, propelled by two large paddle wheels, one on each side Compare stern-wheeler

Example Sentences

The surveyors took the sidewheeler to Buffalo, Iowa, to be more thoroughly checked out.

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The sidewheeler couldn’t run when the water level was high, and there have been many days they couldn’t sail the boat in the past three years.

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The sidewheeler Peter Stuyvesant, which formed part of Anthony's Pier Four Restaurant, was torn from its concrete pilings and wrecked in Boston Harbor.

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The new building joins eight Early American houses, eight barns and sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga.

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The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850.

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