sternwheel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a paddle wheel mounted at the stern of a vessel to propel it through the water

   The sternwheel churned the muddy river as the steamboat pulled away from the landing.

A nineteenth-century nautical compound of stern, the rear of a vessel, + wheel. It distinguishes a paddle wheel mounted behind a vessel from a sidewheel mounted along either side.

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