Paddlewheel

paddle wheel

noun
a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.

Origin:
1675–85

pad·dle-wheel, adjective
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paddle wheel
 
n
a large wheel fitted with paddles, turned by an engine to propel a vessel on the water

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