paddle steamer

noun

paddle steamer

noun
1

Nautical, Transport A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels

  • In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
  • By the 1880s, the pretty harbour village of Lynmouth was enjoying an influx of holidaymakers brought by paddle steamers from the likes of Bristol and Swansea.2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
Related terms
PS, paddleboat, sidewheeler, sternwheeler, steamship, steamboat

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