side-wheel

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   nautical: having a paddle wheel on each side of the hull

   From a distance Huck could not tell whether the steamboat was stern-wheel or side-wheel.

2. 2
   noun

   a paddle wheel mounted on the side of a steam vessel, or a side-wheel steamer by ellipsis

   The riverboat's side-wheels churned the brown water into foam.

A compound of side + wheel. Side-wheel steamers carry paddle wheels on both sides of the hull, unlike stern-wheel vessels with one broad wheel at the rear.

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