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sternwheels

sternwheels is the plural of sternwheel.

Meaning of sternwheel

Noun

sternwheel (plural sternwheels)

  1. A paddle wheel positioned at the stern of a vessel.
    • The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp, the stern–wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the boat, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to give up every moment.1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II

Questions about sternwheels

What is sternwheels the plural of?
Sternwheels is the plural of sternwheel.

Words near sternwheels in the dictionary

  1. sternway
  2. sternways
  3. sternwheel
  4. sternwheeler
  5. sternwheelers
  6. sternwheels
  7. steroid
  8. steroid dementia
  9. steroidal
  10. steroidally
  11. steroidlike

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