Definitions for stern-wheel

stern-wheel stern-wheel

Spelling: [sturn-hweel, -weel]
IPA: /ˈstɜrnˌʰwil, -ˌwil/

Stern-Wheel is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in stern-wheel (-eeehlnrstw).

Definitions for stern-wheel

adjective

  1. propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.

Origin of stern-wheel

First recorded in 1855-60

Examples for stern-wheel

Paul shipped a stern-wheel steamboat up Red River and they put it in the soup kettle to stir the soup.

Oh, yes, I see; and he set me down in his mind as a stern-wheel politician.

Perhaps the most curious craft on the river is the stern-wheel boats, worked by man power.

On the river they have a stern-wheel steamer, the Antonio Lopez, and a number of steel-lighters for carrying down tobacco.

She was a stern-wheel boat, 130 feet long, and 22 feet beam.

We were trying to get up a slue, or back channel, by a short cut, and the stern-wheel never spun twice in the same direction.

If you swim on your face, you kick up the water like a stern-wheel boat.

The "Washtenong," a small steamer with a stern-wheel, in due time carried us up.

Captain Kettle went down to the beach, and stepped along the gangway on to the stern-wheel launch.

It was the stern-wheel steamboat Yuma, and this is the only mention of it I can find.

Word Value for stern-wheel
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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