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paddle wheel
noun
- a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
paddle wheel
noun
- a large wheel fitted with paddles, turned by an engine to propel a vessel on the water
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- paddle-wheel adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of paddle wheel1
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Example Sentences
The 'Syria' was originally a paddle-wheel steamer, having oscillating cylinders worked with steam of 25 lbs.
In the same vessel he adopted a feathering paddle-wheel and the guard-beam now universally seen in our river steamboats.
The screw was found to possess many advantages over the paddle-wheel as an instrument for ship-propulsion.
All these were paddle-wheel boats, and paddle-wheel boats are not adapted to work in heavy seas.
With chain or rope traction there is no loss by slip or oblique action, as in both screw and paddle-wheel propulsion.
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