Definition of "side-wheeler" []

• A side-wheel steamboat. (noun)

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• "At first Luke thought that perhaps it resembled a side-wheeler, but there was no indication that such a vessel had ever sunk in that location."
• "Marsh's career and company is saved, and he is soon the captain of the Fevre Dream, the greatest side-wheeler to ever run the river."
• "After opening his first casino aboard his side-wheeler, the President, in Davenport in 1991, he took President Casinos Inc. public and later opened additional gambling boats in St. Louis and Biloxi, Miss."