Definition of "side-wheel" []

• Of, relating to, or being a steamboat with a paddle wheel on each side. (adjective)

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• "The New York was a side-wheel steamer that foundered during a hurricane about 60 miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana in 1846."
• "The next major technological advance was the side-wheel mower, which had wheels on either side of the cutting cylinder that directly drove it."
• "Sam packed a trunk, and on March 11, the cash from Bliss in his pocket, he boarded the side-wheel steamer Henry Chauncey for Panama."