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单词 side-wheeler
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Definition of side-wheeler in English:

side-wheeler

noun
North American
  • A steamer with paddle wheels on either side.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first three Union gunboats on the Mississippi were converted side-wheelers, averaging 180 feet in length, with 42-foot beams, and drawing about 6 feet of water.
    • The first steamboats on the rivers were side- wheelers; but they were not the best for the business of these shallow rivers, and the later ones have been stern-wheelers.
    • Many of them were small side-wheelers about seventy-five feet long with one boiler and one small, slide-valve engine geared to the stiff shaft running across decks to which both wheels were attached.
    • Before it closed in 1996, 513 ships were built here, from the side-wheeler USS Saginaw to the nuclear submarine USS Drum.
    • Arguably the sleekest of the blockade runners making the dangerous trips between Havana and Mobile was the side-wheeler Denbigh, built in the shipyards of John Laird & Sons of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, England, in 1860.
 
 

Definition of side-wheeler in US English:

side-wheeler

nounˈsaɪdˌ(h)wilərˈsīdˌ(h)wēlər
North American
  • A steamboat with paddle wheels on either side.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first steamboats on the rivers were side- wheelers; but they were not the best for the business of these shallow rivers, and the later ones have been stern-wheelers.
    • Arguably the sleekest of the blockade runners making the dangerous trips between Havana and Mobile was the side-wheeler Denbigh, built in the shipyards of John Laird & Sons of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, England, in 1860.
    • The first three Union gunboats on the Mississippi were converted side-wheelers, averaging 180 feet in length, with 42-foot beams, and drawing about 6 feet of water.
    • Before it closed in 1996, 513 ships were built here, from the side-wheeler USS Saginaw to the nuclear submarine USS Drum.
    • Many of them were small side-wheelers about seventy-five feet long with one boiler and one small, slide-valve engine geared to the stiff shaft running across decks to which both wheels were attached.
 
 
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