STERN-WHEEL

Definition: STERN-WHEEL

STERN-WHEEL

Adjective

1. Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

Large stern-wheel boat bringing supplies Level party of Fred E. Joeckel. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting an incident at the close of the Battle of Memphis on 6 June 1862. The steamer shown may be Mingo or Lioness, the stern-wheel rams of Ellet's fleet. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed while tied up along the Western Rivers during the Civil War. Note: Silver Cloud is generally described as a stern-wheel steamer. However, the ship in this view appears to be a side-wheel type. Therefore, the identification of this photograph should be approached with caution. Credit: NAVY.

Stern-wheel riverboat passing under Illinois Central Railroad bridge over Ohio River, Cairo, Illinois, with logs lashed together at river's edge. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Chinese 

严厉轮子. (various references)

Korean 

� 미 기구. (various references)

Pig Latin

ern-wheelstay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: enwheels, newsreel, wheelers.

-3 letters: entrees, enwheel, ethenes, heelers, nestler, reheels, relents, retenes, sheeter, shelter, stelene, sweeten, sweeter, swelter, teeners, welsher, welters, western, wethers, wheeler, wrestle.

-4 letters: enters, entree, eterne, ethene, ethers, etwees, heeler, hewers, lethes, nester, nestle, nether, newels, newest, reheel, relent, relets, renest, renews, rentes, reseen, resent, resewn, retene, rewets, seethe, serene.

+5 letters: worthlessnesses.