paddle steamer

English

Noun

paddle steamer (plural paddle steamers)

(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

steam-powered vessel propelled by paddle wheel(s)

Czech: kolesový parník m
Dutch: raderboot (nl) m or f, raderstoomboot (nl) m or f, raderschip n
Finnish: siipiratasalus (fi)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjuldamper m
Swedish: hjulångare (sv) c

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