Definition of "paddlebox" [paddlebox]

• A wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. (noun)

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• "The stout old pilot was the real skipper; and now that the vessel had come to anchor, he turned from his lighter duties to the grave pastime of the day, and fished earnestly through a large hole in the paddlebox, -- the porgies that came to his allurements arriving at their destination by a series of flapping manoeuvres from blade to blade of the wheel."
• "While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon."
• "When the steamer returned she had scarcely a vestige of bulwark or paddlebox left: all had been smashed and carried away by the force of the sea."