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paddle wheel
noun
- a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
paddle wheel
noun
- a large wheel fitted with paddles, turned by an engine to propel a vessel on the water
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of paddle wheel1
First recorded in 1675–85
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Example Sentences
Each Swan Boat weighs 3 tons fully laden and is powered by the driver using a foot-propelled paddle wheel.
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The USS Saginaw was a small Navy steamer with sails and two side paddle wheels.
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The gentle current, kicked up by a creaky paddle wheel, terrifies nobody.
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In the suffocating cabin, maddened by the vibration of the metal plates and the unbearable stench of the mud stirred up by the paddle wheel, Meme lost track of the days.
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Later, people on Malaske’s boat saw a duck boat passenger “hanging on for dear life†to the paddle wheel of the Belle, he said.
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