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side-wheel [sahyd-hweel, -weel] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
Origin of side-wheel First recorded in 1855–60 Related formsside-wheel·er, noun Examples from the Web for side-wheel Historical Examples of side-wheel
On a side-wheel boat the make-up of the engine crew is different.
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
George Byron Merrick
She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams.
The Civil War Through the Camera
Henry W. (Henry William) Elson
There was great danger that he would run into us, as he was like a steamer with only one side-wheel and no rudder.
Charles Dudley Warner
On the side-wheel boat, to get back to my subject, the engines are independent—one engine to each wheel.
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
George Byron Merrick
A side-wheel boat usually went around the sharp bend with one paddle wheel backing and the other going ahead.
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
George Byron Merrick