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stern-wheeler
noun
- See sidewheelera vessel, esp a riverboat, propelled by a large paddle wheel at the stern Compare sidewheeler
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His boat was a “stern-wheeler,” and is stated to have been capable of steaming five miles an hour.
In this model Fitch shifted the paddles from the sides to the rear, thus anticipating in principle the modern stern-wheeler.
There was another boat that left Paducah the same time we did, the "Masonic Gem," a stern-wheeler about the same size of our boat.
A type of river steamer which will amaze the American is an old stern-wheeler run by man power.
She was a small stern-wheeler, not unlike the boats which run on the upper Missouri.
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