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paddle-boat

paddle-boat is the alternative spelling of paddleboat.

Meaning of paddleboat

Noun

paddleboat (plural paddleboats)

  1. A boat propelled by a paddle wheel
    • It also caused major problems for businesses which relied on the lake and river, including the city's paddleboat operator and the river cruise company.2009 February 12, “Weir gate fault drains city lake”, in Herald Sun
  2. (Australia, Canada, US) a pedalo
    • Naval sources report the amazing rescue of two 65-year-old women who were found floating 400 miles off the coast of California — in a tiny paddleboat!1996 April 2, Lisa Merakis, “Two women found floating in paddleboat — 400 miles from shore!”, in Weekly World News, →ISSN, page 33, [satirical]

Forms of paddle-boat

pluralpaddle-boats

Questions about paddle-boat

What is paddle-boat the alternative spelling of?
Paddle-boat is the alternative spelling of paddleboat.

Words near paddle-boat in the dictionary

  1. paddle tennis
  2. paddle wheel
  3. paddle wheeler
  4. paddle wheelers
  5. paddle wheels
  6. paddle-boat
  7. paddle-out
  8. paddle-outs
  9. paddle-staff
  10. paddle-staffs
  11. paddle-staves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paddle-boat (page history and authors); paddleboat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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