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paddle wheeler

paddle wheeler is the alternative form of paddlewheeler.

Meaning of paddlewheeler

Noun

paddlewheeler (plural paddlewheelers)

  1. A boat propelled by paddlewheel.
    • People along rivers and the coast who used rowboats and small sailboats for fishing and ferrying learned to dread the sound of a paddlewheeler coming through the mist.1987, Bob Whittier, Paddle wheel steamers and their giant engines, page 39

Forms of paddle wheeler

pluralpaddle wheelers

Questions about paddle wheeler

What is paddle wheeler the alternative form of?
Paddle wheeler is the alternative form of paddlewheeler.

Words near paddle wheeler in the dictionary

  1. paddle shifters
  2. paddle steamer
  3. paddle steamers
  4. paddle tennis
  5. paddle wheel
  6. paddle wheeler
  7. paddle wheelers
  8. paddle wheels
  9. paddle-boat
  10. paddle-out
  11. paddle-outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paddle wheeler (page history and authors); paddlewheeler (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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