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paddle steamers

paddle steamers is the plural of paddle steamer.

Meaning of paddle steamer

Noun

paddle steamer (plural paddle steamers)

  1. 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

Questions about paddle steamers

What is paddle steamers the plural of?
Paddle steamers is the plural of paddle steamer.

Words near paddle steamers in the dictionary

  1. paddle scoop
  2. paddle scoops
  3. paddle shifter
  4. paddle shifters
  5. paddle steamer
  6. paddle steamers
  7. paddle tennis
  8. paddle wheel
  9. paddle wheeler
  10. paddle wheelers
  11. paddle wheels

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