side-wheel

The Nantucket was a small side-wheel steamer of light draft, and we were able to run in and out over the bar at will.

In the following winter Fulton completed a model side-wheel boat.

Such engines are used to some extent in Europe, and they have been adopted in the United States navy for side-wheel gunboats.

The "Nashville" was an old side-wheel passenger-steamer, of which the Confederates had made a privateer.

It is a side-wheel boat, the wheels being very large, but not dipping far into the water.