stern-wheeln.

Etymology: stern n.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstern-wheel.

1. A paddle-wheel placed at the stern of a small river or lake steamer.

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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.

attributive.1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 368 The boat I was in..was a stern-wheel craft.1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 3/2 Our stern-wheel boat creeps along up stream.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 8/2 A new stern-wheel steamboat for the Nile expedition.

2. transferred in jocular use (U.S.).

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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.

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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.

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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).

单词	stern-wheel
释义	stern-wheeln. Etymology: stern n.³Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstern-wheel. 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. attributive.1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 368 The boat I was in..was a stern-wheel craft.1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 3/2 Our stern-wheel boat creeps along up stream.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 8/2 A new stern-wheel steamboat for the Nile expedition. 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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