paddle steamer

English

Noun

paddle steamer (plural paddle steamers)

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

     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...

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:

     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.

Translations

steam-powered vessel propelled by paddle wheel(s)

• Catalan: caixell de paletes m
• Czech: kolesový parník m
• Danish: hjuldamper
• Dutch: raderboot (nl) m or f, raderstoomboot (nl) m or f, raderschip n
• Esperanto: padelŝipo
• Finnish: siipiratasalus (fi)
• French: bateau à roues à aubes m
• German: Raddampfer (de) m
• Greek: τροχήλατο πλοίο n (trochílato ploío)
• Hebrew: אוניית משוטה
• Japanese: 外輪船
• Korean: 외륜선 (oeryunseon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjuldamper m

• Persian: کشتی چرخ‌پره‌ای
• Romanian: navă cu zbaturi
• Russian: колёсный пароход m (koljósnyj paroxod)
• Spanish: vapor de ruedas m
• Swedish: hjulångare (sv) c
• Turkish: çarklı vapur
• Ukrainian: колісний пароплав m (kolisnyj paroplav)
• Welsh: stemar olwyn

See also

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