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ˈstern-wheel, n.
[stern n.3]
A paddle-wheel placed at the stern of a small river or lake steamer.
1816U.S. Patent (John L. Sullivan) 10 Dec., Double stern wheel for boats. 1896Markham in Geog. Jrnl. VII. 188 [The steam-launch] is propelled by a stern wheel.
attrib.1856Olmsted Slave States 368 The boat I was in..was a stern-wheel craft. 1882Harper's Mag. Dec. 3/2 Our stern-wheel boat creeps along up stream. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 8/2 A new stern-wheel steamboat for the Nile expedition.
b. transf. in jocular use (U.S.).
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 450 The term is applied to any thing small, petty; as, a ‘stern-wheel church’.
Hence ˈsternwheel v. intr., to move by the agency of a stern-wheel. sternwheeler, a boat propelled by a stern-wheel.
1807in Tennessee Hist. Mag. (1919) V. 62 Struck a large and stubborn sawyer, two or three feet below the surface of the water in a rapid current—stern wheeled with rapidity. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 450 Stern-wheeler, a steamboat fitted up with a stern-wheel. 1905Blackw. Mag. Apr. 345/1 The Amka..stern-wheels slowly from the murky flood into the green water. 1906Macm. Mag. Oct. 939 Our little neat stern-wheeler emerges from the last great lock of the Assouan dam. |