单词	paddle wheel
释义	paddle wheel noun : a wheel with paddles around its circumference used to propel a boat Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Shallow waters in Mjosa, the country’s largest lake, kept its famed Skibladner paddle wheel boat tied up at port and prompted city officials in Oslo to send out text messages urging people to take shorter showers and avoid watering lawns. New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022 American Queen Voyages offers several cruises along the Mississippi on paddle wheel steamboats like the American Queen. Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2021 In the second ad, algae is grown in little dishes, cultivated in a tiny seawater pond, and kept circulating by a minuscule paddle wheel. Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2020 Chris Sabick identified the wreckage as being a paddle wheel belonging to the steamboat Phoenix. Allen Kim, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020 Local man Gary Lefebvre spotted the first paddle wheel while working through a list of 3,000 sonar targets, reports Austin Danforth for the Burlington Free Press. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020 Lefebvre discovered a second paddle wheel in the vicinity of the first on a second trip. Allen Kim, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020 Samuel Morse’s telegraph, John A. Peer’s gear-cutting machine and Henry Williams’s steamboat paddle wheel. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020 Until modern times, the operation was powered by water; on a wall was an old photo of Degrange’s father and grandfather, seated before a mill paddle wheel three times their height. Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020 See More Word History First Known Use 1685, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition paddle wheel noun : a wheel with broad boards near its outer edge used to make a boat move
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