SIDE-WHEEL

Definition: SIDE-WHEEL

SIDE-WHEEL

Adjective

1. Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SIDE-WHEEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I. It depicts USS Varuna in the center, being rammed by a Confederate ship identified as "Breckinridge" (at left) while engaging CSS Governor Moore (at right) during the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862. The side-wheel steamer identified here as "Breckinridge" (General Breckinridge), is more probably the Stonewall Jackson. Credit: NAVY.

View of the Academy waterfront area, circa the late 1860s, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is USS Tonawanda (renamed Amphitrite in 1869). Ships at the pier in right center are Constellation, USS Dale and USS Santee. Note the small tug on the beach at left, apparently under construction or undergoing a major overhaul, and the side-wheel steamer at the dock. Compare this view with Photo # NH 2120, showing much the same scene but without the buildings in the lower left. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed in port, circa early 1942. Note what appears to be an old side-wheel ferryboat by the shore in the left distance. Credit: NAVY.

Watercolor by eyewitness Ensign John W. Grattan, of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's staff, depicting Porter's fleet bombarding the fort prior to the ground assault. Side-wheel steamer in the right foreground is Porter's flagship, USS Malvern. USS New Ironsides and USS Monadnock are in the right distance. Credit: NAVY.

Loaded with 1000 bales of cotton, at Georgetown, South Carolina, probably in 1860-61 or 1866-76. She was a side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. In Confederate Army service in 1861-62, she was turned over to the Federals by her pilot, Robert Smalls, on 13 May 1862 and served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army before returning to commercial use in 1866. Credit: NAVY.

A side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, Planter was run out of Charleston and delivered to the Federals in the early morning of 13 May 1862 by her pilot, Robert Smalls, a slave. She also brought several other black men, women and children to freedom. Planter subsequently served in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Engraving by T. Shussler, after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". It depicts ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, prior to the ground assault that captured the fortification. Identifiable ships include: USS Monadnock (twin-turret monitor in the right center); USS Vanderbilt (grey two-stack side-wheel steamer in right foreground); and USS New Ironsides (at the right end of the main battle line). Credit: NAVY.

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Side-wheel steamer which tows pulp wood twelve miles down Mooselookmeguntic Lake. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Chinese 

边轮子. (various references)

Korean 

측 기구. (various references)

Pig Latin

ide-wheelsay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: wheedles, wheelies.

-2 letters: welshed, wheedle, wheeled, wheelie.

-3 letters: diesel, ediles, elides, heeled, heiled, sedile, seeled, seidel, shewed, shield, slewed, wedels, wheels, whiled, whiles, wields, wished.

-4 letters: deils, deles, delis, edile, elide, heeds, heels, heils, hewed, hides, idles, isled, lewis, lweis, sewed, shied, shiel, sidle, slide, swede, wedel, weeds, welds, welsh, wheel, whids, while, wides.

+3 letters: thimbleweeds.

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