Meaning of paddle steamer | Babel Free

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A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels

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Examples

“In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...”

“By the 1880s, the pretty harbour village of Lynmouth was enjoying an influx of holidaymakers brought by paddle steamers from the likes of Bristol and Swansea.”

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