English

Noun

paddle steamer ‎(plural paddle steamers)

1. (nautical) A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels
   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     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...

Translations

See also

• PS
• paddleboat
• sidewheeler
• sternwheeler
• steamship
• steamboat