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What does side-wheel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word side-wheel? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.
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She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams.
Such engines are used to some extent in Europe, and they have been adopted in the United States navy for side-wheel gunboats.
On a side-wheel boat the make-up of the engine crew is different.
Presented is an original oil painting on canvas of a side-wheel steamer painted by an unknown artist.
You know every side-wheel steamer has a statement of her destination painted on her wheel house.
We then crossed a fine iron bridge and went on board a side-wheel steamer.

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