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- noun Plural form of
sidewheeler .
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Examples
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Many of us, including the Choctaw, managed to fire on the sidewheelers and they were sunk promptly.
Ironclad Action: Get the Lousiana! at Cold Wars 2010 « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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That's easy: Frank Lampard, better known as Frankie, the striking midfielder from Chelsea who ended the year with a best-ever 22 goals in the Premiership -- Lampard like a destroyer in a sea of tugboats and sidewheelers, or maybe like a shark ever-ready to feed upon a lesser species.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: My Year With the Premiership 2010
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At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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This demand was prompted by the voyages of the Sirius and Great Western, wooden-hulled sidewheelers which thrashed along at ten knots 'speed and crossed the Atlantic in fourteen to seventeen days.
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers.
Chapter IX 1885
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At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers.
Personal Memoirs of U S Grant 01 Grant, Ulysses S 1885
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At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers.
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At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were sidewheelers.
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Ancient Indian burial mounds punctuate rolling parkland, sidewheelers ply the river, and villages on either bank present fine examples of Steamboat Gothic, the ornate architectural style born in the heyday of river travel.
unknown title 2009
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Ancient Indian burial mounds punctuate rolling parkland, sidewheelers ply the river, and villages on either bank present fine examples of Steamboat Gothic, the ornate architectural style born in the heyday of river travel.
unknown title 2009
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