Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A side-wheel steamboat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A side-wheel steamboat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a paddle steamer having a paddle wheel on each side
Examples
“At first Luke thought that perhaps it resembled a side-wheeler, but there was no indication that such a vessel had ever sunk in that location.”
“Marsh's career and company is saved, and he is soon the captain of the Fevre Dream, the greatest side-wheeler to ever run the river.”
“After opening his first casino aboard his side-wheeler, the President, in Davenport in 1991, he took President Casinos Inc. public and later opened additional gambling boats in St. Louis and Biloxi, Miss.”
“Some were steam-powered: side-wheeler tugs, hauling barges and pulling the big ships into the harbor; ferries crisscrossing from Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem Village, New Jersey, Staten Island; huge commercial and navy steamers—all belching smoke from their tall black stacks.”
“A 1,428-ton side-wheeler with two masts, she had patrolled against blockade runners around the Chesapeake Bay as a Federal gunship during the war.”
“The New York Press 2/20/1910 describes him as a “side-wheeler.””
“Along with the side-wheeler, fishing vessels and lumber barges crowded the harbor.”
“Mary spotted the side-wheeler T.J. Potter at anchor awaiting the tide.”
“That was probably the coastal side-wheeler to Yllith, the enormous island which stood a-thwart the Upper Bay, barring the Gulf of Sfath as a whole from the equatorial sea.”
“It was just the kind of steamer, any one would say, to be running on the Chuckatuck -- a fat, wheezy side-wheeler that came up to its landing near us with three hearty whistles and such a jovial puffing as seemed to say, "Now, I'm certainly mighty glad to get back again to you all.”
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