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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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Presented is an original oil painting on canvas of a side-wheel steamer painted by an unknown artist.
There was great danger that he would run into us, as he was like a steamer with only one side-wheel and no rudder.
A side-wheel boat usually went around the sharp bend with one paddle wheel backing and the other going ahead.
The side-wheel paddle steamer PROBE Anne Corcscadden was carrying Union soldiers to New Orleans when it hit a coral reef.
We then crossed a fine iron bridge and went on board a side-wheel steamer.
She and her sister ship, the Choctaw, were side-wheel steamers altered into casemate ironclads with rams.

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