paddle steamer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels
Example Sentences
- "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..."
- "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."