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  • noun nautical One of a pair of paddle wheels positioned one each side of a vessel

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Examples

  • This sidewheel steamer was built in 1851 for the Lake Ontario trade of freight, passengers and livestock.

    Civil War Papercrafts | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • Quote: “Jack Pfiester is chosen in advance by Manager Chance to occupy the slab in the crucial game as the New Yorkers have been found less effective against the sidewheel delivery.”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Quote: “Jack Pfiester is chosen in advance by Manager Chance to occupy the slab in the crucial game as the New Yorkers have been found less effective against the sidewheel delivery.”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Quote: “Jack Pfiester is chosen in advance by Manager Chance to occupy the slab in the crucial game as the New Yorkers have been found less effective against the sidewheel delivery.”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • He obtained from Bliss an advance of royalty and took passage, by way of Aspinwall, on the sidewheel steamer Henry Chauncey, a fine vessel for those days.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • At 7:30 A.M., they were towed from the pier by the William Fletcher, a steam-powered sidewheel tug, and lay in the Upper Bay until 9:00 A.M., when a pilot boat brought the rest of the crew.

    A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

  • Perhaps a sidewheel ship could have bucked it, but Theor could not.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Perhaps a sidewheel ship could have bucked it, but Theor could not.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • The ancient sidewheel steamer was small and there were few passengers on the upper deck, forward.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • Once, twice, three times she has banged away a broadside at the rebel sidewheel, and now the batteries on shore in turn open fire on her.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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