paddlewheelern.
/ˈpadlˌwiːlə/, U.S. /ˈpædlˌ(h)wilər/ A paddle steamer.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by paddles > paddle-steamer
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1876 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 277 Civil engineers..kindly lent me their little paddle-wheeler, ‘Messagero’.
1924 H. A. Tripp Shoalwater & Fairway vii. 128 That Belle steamer was a mine-sweeper in the War, and jolly useful they found the old excursion paddle-wheelers.
1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick vi. 83 He built the Reindeer, a paddlewheeler that easily outraced bigger and fancier river boats.
1995 Country Living May 34/3 Billboards announced daytime cruises on the Missippi River aboard quaint paddlewheelers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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