Definitions for side-wheel

side-wheel side-wheel

Spelling: [sahyd-hweel, -weel]
IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌʰwil, -ˌwil/

Side-Wheel is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in side-wheel (-deeehilsw).

Definitions for side-wheel

adjective

  1. having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.

Origin of side-wheel

First recorded in 1855-60

Examples for side-wheel

We then crossed a fine iron bridge and went on board a side-wheel steamer.

You know every side-wheel steamer has a statement of her destination painted on her wheel house.

On a side-wheel boat the make-up of the engine crew is different.

There was great danger that he would run into us, as he was like a steamer with only one side-wheel and no rudder.

side-wheel ferries, driven by horse-power, plied between the river's mouth and the Queenston landing.

On the side-wheel boat, to get back to my subject, the engines are independent—one engine to each wheel.

She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams.

I can't make out why a side-wheel steamer should be comin' so near the ledge, an' then agin, why don't she shift her course?

A side-wheel boat usually went around the sharp bend with one paddle wheel backing and the other going ahead.

Such engines are used to some extent in Europe, and they have been adopted in the United States navy for side-wheel gunboats.

Word Value for side-wheel
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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