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side-wheel

side-wheel adjective: having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.

Adjective

side-wheel (not comparable)

  1. Having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.
    • a side-wheel steamer
    • a side-wheel gunboat

Questions about side-wheel

What does side-wheel mean?
Side-wheel means having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.
What part of speech is side-wheel?
Side-wheel is an adjective.

Words near side-wheel in the dictionary

  1. side-taking
  2. side-to-side
  3. side-tracked
  4. side-view mirror
  5. side-walk
  6. side-wheel
  7. side-wheeler
  8. side-wheelers
  9. side-whiskered
  10. side-whiskers
  11. side-wife

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