Word Meanings - SIDE-WHEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - PADDLER
One who, or that which, paddles. - STEAM
smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor; - PADDLEFISH
A large ganoid fish found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - WHEELBIRD
The European goatsucker. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - PADDLE
1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak. 2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. 3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. - STEAMBOAT
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - WHEELWRIGHT
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like. - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - WHEELED
Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - WHEELBARROW
A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person. - WHEELWORK
A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism. - WHEELING
1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - FOUR-WHEELER
A vehicle having four wheels. - SPADDLE
A little spade. - PELTON WHEEL
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - BREASTWHEEL
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on - FUDGE WHEEL
A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole. - ARTILLERY WHEEL
A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc. - COCK-PADDLE
See LUMPFISH - WHEEL
A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the - STREAM WHEEL
A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.