stern-wheel

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.