paddlewheel

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Investigators determined that JBS failed to adequately secure a trolley and hoist that were being used to lift the paddlewheel.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Jerry leaves us riverside as Victoriaand I board this paddlewheel vessel for a three-hour tour up the Chena River.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2017

In particular, if you place a paddlewheel into a field at any point so that the axis of the wheel is perpendicular to a plane, the wheel rotates counterclockwise.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Steel Corporation-built steam engine and multi-ton white oak paddlewheel is part of the pleasure of visiting this old French city of New Orleans, so associated with steamboats and the Deep South.

From US News • Apr. 12, 2015

A riverboat’s paddlewheel churned above me, swirling the silt around.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan