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stern-wheeler

stern-wheeler is the alternative form of sternwheeler.

Meaning of sternwheeler

Noun

sternwheeler (plural sternwheelers)

  1. A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
    • Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 140

Forms of stern-wheeler

pluralstern-wheelers

Questions about stern-wheeler

What is stern-wheeler the alternative form of?
Stern-wheeler is the alternative form of sternwheeler.

Words near stern-wheeler in the dictionary

  1. stern sheets
  2. stern-
  3. Stern-Brocot tree
  4. Stern-Brocot trees
  5. Stern-Gerlach experiment
  6. stern-wheeler
  7. stern-wheelers
  8. sterna
  9. sternacostal
  10. sternage
  11. sternal

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