sternwheeler
nounEtymology From sternwheel + -er.
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Nautical, Transport A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
- Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 140:
- Related terms
- sidewheeler