Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shaft by means of which the paddle-wheels of a steamboat are driven.
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Examples
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There was thus, for a time, an end of the steam hammer required for forging the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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But the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain was never forged.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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I told him that I felt assured he would now be able to overcome his difficulty, and that the paddle-shaft of the Great Britain might now be forged.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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The labour, the anxiety, and perhaps the disappointment, proved too much for him, and a brain-fever carried him off; so that neither his great paddle-shaft nor Mr. Nasmyth's steam-hammer to forge it was any longer needed.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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The engines were in hand, when a difficulty arose with respect to the enormous paddle-shaft of the vessel, which was of such a size of forging as had never before been executed.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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The paddle-shaft of the "Great Britain" was, however, never forged.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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The labour, the anxiety, and perhaps the disappointment, proved too much for him, and a brain-fever carried him off; so that neither his great paddle-shaft nor Mr. Nasmyth's steam-hammer to forge it was any longer needed.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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The engines were in hand, when a difficulty arose with respect to the enormous paddle-shaft of the vessel, which was of such a size of forging as had never before been executed.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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The paddle-shaft of the "Great Britain" was, however, never forged.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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"I find," he said, "that there is not a forge hammer in England or Scotland powerful enough to forge the intermediate paddle-shaft of the engines for the Great Britain!
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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