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paddlesteamer

paddlesteamer is the alternative form 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

Forms of paddlesteamer

pluralpaddlesteamers

Questions about paddlesteamer

What is paddlesteamer the alternative form of?
Paddlesteamer is the alternative form of paddle steamer.

Words near paddlesteamer in the dictionary

  1. paddlers
  2. paddles
  3. paddles one's own canoe
  4. paddlesport
  5. paddlesports
  6. paddlesteamer
  7. paddleth
  8. paddlewheel
  9. paddlewheel complex
  10. paddlewheeler
  11. paddlewheelers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paddlesteamer (page history and authors); paddle steamer (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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