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Definition of "paddlewheel" []

  • A large wheel fitted with thick slats, turned by an engine and used to propel a boat (noun)
  • The name for a boat propelled by a paddlewheel (noun)

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Use "paddlewheel" in a sentence
  • "In the 1810s, soon after giant paddlewheel boats began carting passengers along the rivers that ran from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to St. Louis, Memphis, through the Mississippi Delta, and all the way down to New Orleans, white entertainers imitating black songs and dances became a common sight on the streets of major cities."
  • "It literally bored through the swarm, batting aside zikki like fish caught in a paddlewheel."
  • "From the wreck of the paddlewheel steamer, the Winfield Scott, which ran aground on the island in 1853, while making the San Francisco to Panama run with a load of gold prospectors and rats aboard."