Meanings
nounpaddle boat (plural paddle boats)
plural paddle boats
- alternativeAlternative spelling of paddleboat.
Perhaps the most interesting of all the recent additions to the Clyde fleet is Talisman, built in 1935 for the London & North Eastern Railway, for in her are incorporated entirely new features in that she is a paddle boat driven by diesel-electric engines.
1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 397
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