Definition of sternwheeler in English:
sternwheeler
nounˈstəːnwiːləˈstərnˌ(h)wēlər
A steamer propelled by a paddle wheel positioned at the stern.
Example sentencesExamples
- Steaming upriver into the Columbia's great, verdant gorge, large sternwheelers brought passengers and profits to steamboat companies.
- To attract a younger clientele, the sternwheeler will make repeating three- and four-day Mississippi River cruises combined with a New Orleans hotel and activities package.
- Donning them triggers a kind of time slip, and we suddenly find ourselves falling back to the Dawson of yore, caught up in the excitement of a sternwheeler's arrival.
- The city was a scenic, lush rush of green, as seen from river level, topped with the sparkling lights of downtown as the sternwheeler paddled up to Rossdale under a light drizzle.
- Parked in the Sacramento River is the sternwheeler Delta King, twin of the Mississippi's Delta Queen.