Word Meanings - STERNWHEELER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. [Colloq. U.S.]

• Wheeler
  One who wheels, or turns.
• WHEELSHAPED
  Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• Sternebra
  One of the segments of the sternum.
• Sternson
  The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
• Wheelhouse
  A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
• WHEELWORN
  Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.
• Havener
  A harbor master.
• Sterned
  Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
• Sternums
  of Sternum
• Wheelmen
  of Wheelman
• Colloquial
  Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• Sterner
  A director.
• Sternum
  A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
• Wheelman
  One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
• Colloquialism
  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Sternforemost
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.

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