单词 | stern-wheel |
释义 | stern-wheeln. 1. A paddle-wheel placed at the stern of a small river or lake steamer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > paddle-wheel > types of stern-wheel1816 side wheel1826 outside1876 1816 J. L. Sullivan U.S. Patent 10 Dec. Double stern wheel for boats. 1896 C. Markham in Geogr. Jrnl. 7 188 [The steam-launch] is propelled by a stern wheel. 2. transferred in jocular use (U.S.). ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 450 The term is applied to any thing small, petty; as, a ‘stern-wheel church’. Derivatives ˈsternwheel v. (intransitive) to move by the agency of a stern-wheel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > by types of mechanical propulsion puff?c1225 sternwheel1807 paddle1827 steam1832 screw1840 1807 in Tennessee Hist. Mag. (1919) 5 62 Struck a large and stubborn sawyer, two or three feet below the surface of the water in a rapid current—stern wheeled with rapidity. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 345/1 The Amka..stern-wheels slowly from the murky flood into the green water. sternwheeler n. a boat propelled by a stern-wheel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by paddles > paddle-steamer > types of side wheel1826 side-wheeler1857 sternwheeler1859 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 450 Stern-wheeler, a steamboat fitted up with a stern-wheel. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 939 Our little neat stern-wheeler emerges from the last great lock of the Assouan dam. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1807 |
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