Definitions for paddle-wheel

paddle-wheel paddle wheel

Paddle-Wheel is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in paddle-wheel (-addeeehllpw).

Definitions for paddle-wheel

noun

  1. a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.

Origin of paddle-wheel

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for paddle-wheel

Branca's invention was simply a paddle-wheel turned by a jet of steam instead of by a water current.

These engines and the driving-rod to the paddle-wheel were uncovered.

She started up, choking and sobbing, and heard the engines throb, the paddle-wheel creak and splash.

The paddle-wheel was between the two hulls, and near the stern of the craft.

The jet of water did not prove any more successful, and but two other methods were available—the propeller and the paddle-wheel.

The frame of wood which encircles the upper part of the paddle-wheel.

These levers operated the paddle wheel by connecting rods to cranks on the paddle-wheel shaft.

Steam was supplied to these engines by six tubular boilers of about the same dimensions as those for the paddle-wheel engines.

It is to be propelled by the combined powers of the paddle-wheel and the screw.

Imagine a paddle-wheel placed in water and caused to rotate.

Word Value for paddle-wheel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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