Definition of "stern-wheel" []

• A paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels. (adjective)
• Having a paddle wheel at the stern. (adjective)

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• "But he held his tongue and went to work, and one day the defiant whistle of a crazy stern-wheel tub saluted the midnight sun on the dank river-stretch by"
• "The steamer "Chapala" is a flat-bottom stern-wheel boat, very like those that are common on the shallow rivers of the West; the only boats adapted to shoal-water service."
• "They boarded a steamer for a short lake voyage and then headed down the San Juan River toward the Atlantic Coast aboard another stern-wheel boat."