stern-wheel
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of stern-wheel
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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After a mile I spot my destination: three stern-wheel paddle steamers abandoned on the gravel bank above the river.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017
During the last decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th century, stern-wheel steamboats served as the region's public transportation system.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vessel was the Delta Queen, a four-deck, wooden, stern-wheel steamer fitted out with Tiffany lamps and polished hardwood floors to remind tourists of the riverboats of Mark Twain's day.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Up in the Dakotas, some of them farms are so big, they have their own stern-wheel steamboats to carry their wheat to their own elevators at Fargo,” I told Dad.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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