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stern-wheel
[ sturn-hweel, -weel ]
adjective
- propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stern-wheel1
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Example Sentences
Paul shipped a stern-wheel steamboat up Red River and they put it in the soup kettle to stir the soup.
Generally a great wooden stern-wheel propels this strange craft, adding to the grotesqueness of the sight.
The great stern-wheel of the “New Lucy” revolved with a dashing and a churning sound.
I c'n see him near the shore there, kicking up the water like an old stern-wheel steamboat.
Oh, yes, I see; and he set me down in his mind as a stern-wheel politician.
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