sternwheeler
[sturn-hwee-ler, -wee-]
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noun
a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
Origin of sternwheeler
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The engine-room crew of a Mississippi steamer varies as the boat is a side-wheeler or a stern-wheeler.
Old Times on the Upper MississippiGeorge Byron Merrick
The stern-wheeler has two engines, but they are both coupled to the same shaft, by a crank at each end.
Old Times on the Upper MississippiGeorge Byron Merrick
Up this crooked stream it was the problem to force the largest boat that had ever navigated it, and a stern-wheeler at that.
Old Times on the Upper MississippiGeorge Byron Merrick
And if the outfit was gotten out of a wrecked Mississippi stern-wheeler, what boots it!
So there the matter rested when Robert Ingersoll was waiting for the stern-wheeler to reload.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7Elbert Hubbard
stern-wheeler
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