Sternwheeler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern

    "Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck."

  2. 2
    a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern wordnet

Example

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"Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck."

Etymology

From sternwheel + -er.

Related phrases

paddle steamerpaddle wheel

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