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paddle box
noun
- a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
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Example Sentences
The Durande having settled down more on the larboard than on the starboard side, the right paddle-box was higher than the left.
The most rapid vessels are chosen for this service; they have the words, "United States Mail," painted on their paddle-box.
We had a ladder with us which just reached from the top of our paddle-box to about two feet below the sides of the vessel.
With these facts the Professor scrambled from the larboard paddle-box of the Hibernia.
So I went and sat down on the paddle-box and placed a boat hook at my side, to be ready should any one fall into the water.
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